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- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Polish-Sudanese excavations, cemetery 2, found during the dismantling of remains of a mastaba belonging to tomb Ghz-2-117
- Excavation no.
- Gh.2016.1.008
- Present location
- Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima
- Museum no.
- not registered
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing & painted
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- unidentified
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 8; W: 6; Th: 2–2.3
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- core black, surface red
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 2
- Height of letters
- c. 1.5
- Description
- Fragment of a plaque with a part of one margin preserved, most probably upper or lower. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line, leaving the margin of 1.5 cm. The borderline and letters painted black after firing.
Porous Nile clay with organic and mineral admixture (mica, quartzite). - Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; fragment of lower or upper margin with faint remnants of two lines
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 193
- Other editions
- Other publications
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