Text 4284
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Polish-Sudanese excavations, cemetery 2, re-used in a secondary stone mastaba constructed on the top of the normal mud-brick mastaba of tomb Ghz-2-138
- Excavation no.
- Gh.2016.1.005
- Present location
- Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima
- Museum no.
- not registered
- Medium
- sepulchral cross
- Technique
- incised before firing & painted
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 17; W: 14; Th: 3
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- core black, surface red, painted white (eroded)
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 3
- Height of letters
- 1.5–3
- Description
- Fragment of the right horizontal arm of a sepulchral cross, with margins preserved. The epigraphic field is framed by an incised line, leaving a narrow outer margin. The surface painted white after firing, borderline and letters painted black.
Porous Nile clay with considerable organic and mineral admixture (mica, quartzite). - Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; fragment of right horizontal arm; very fragile and powdery
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- [--- ⲙⲏ]ⲛⲓ ⲉⲡⲓ[ⲫⲓ ---]
- Transcription
- "in the month of Epeiph [---]" (ll. 1–2)
- Months
- ⲉⲡⲓ[ⲫⲓ]
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 211
- Other editions
- Other publications
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