Text 4273
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Polish-Sudanese excavations, fill of room 104, eastern side
- Excavation no.
- (a): Gh.2015.2.040
(b): Gh.2016.1.162 - Present location
- Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima
- Museum no.
- not registered
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- unidentified
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- (a): H: 12; W: 8; Th: 2.4–2.8
(b): H: 10; W: 11; Th: c. 2 - Text dimensions
- Object colour
- core black, front red to black, back red
- Text colour
- Lines
- 3 + 2
- Height of letters
- not recorded
- Description
- Two fragments of a plaque: (a) – right margin, (b) – lower margin. The epigraphic field framed by a groove, ca. 1 cm wide, leaving the outer margin of 3.4 cm. The letters were deeply carved.
Porous Nile clay with organic and considerable mineral admixture (mica, quartzite). - Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; two fragments from right and bottom margins with remains of five lines
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 184
- Other editions
- Other publications
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