Text 4292
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Polish-Sudanese excavations, cemetery 2, found in the fill of a secondary burial pit, with a burial of a child, dug into the superstructure of the earlier tomb Ghz-2-013
- Excavation no.
- Gh.2015.2.014
- Present location
- Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima
- Museum no.
- not registered
- Medium
- sepulchral cross
- Technique
- incised before firing & painted
- Type of text
- acclamation
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- 'light – life' acclamation
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 9.2; W: 12.3; Th: 3.5
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- core black/dark brown in centre, red towards edges; surface red (slipped)
- Text colour
- dark red (ⲱ)
- Lines
- 1
- Height of letters
- impossible to measure
- Description
- Fragment of the central part of a sepulchral cross with small fragments of side margins preserved. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line. The cross was red-slipped and the borderline and letters painted dark red after firing. Fragment of a small cross painted in dark red visible in the bottom part of the piece.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; central part of cross with fragments of right and left margins
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 221
- Other editions
- Other publications
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