Text 4283
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Polish-Sudanese excavations, cemetery 2, tomb Ghz-2-134
- Excavation no.
- Gh.2016.1.079
- Present location
- Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima
- Museum no.
- not registered
- Medium
- sepulchral cross
- Technique
- incised before firing & painted
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- unidentified
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 14; W: 13.5; Th: 3.3
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- core black, surface red
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 2
- Height of letters
- impossible to measure
- Description
- Upper fragment of the right horizontal arm of a sepulchral cross with fragments of upper and right margins. The epigraphic field framed by a double incised line, leaving the margin of 2.4 cm. In the upper right corner a decorative cross with V-shaped endings of the upper and side bars incised before firing. The borderlines, the letters, and the cross painted black after firing. On the back, a geometrical pattern was painted black.
Porous Nile clay with organic and considerable mineral admixture (mica, quartzite). - Decorative elements
- decorative cross in l. 1; back surface painted with black pattern
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; fragment of right horizontal arm with part of upper and right margins preserved
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- [---]ⲫⲓ ⲕ̄ⲏ̄
- Transcription
- "Phaophi/Epeiph 28" (l. 2)
- Months
- [---]ⲫⲓ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 209
- Other editions
- Other publications
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