site 16-J-6, house IV, magazine 8, fill near the entrance
Excavation no.
16-J-6/28
Present location
Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.
SNM 23045
Medium
manuscript: leaf
Technique
painted
Type of text
liturgical: lectionary
Language
Old Nubian
Content
fragment of lectionary with Mathew 6:25, Matthew 6:30, and 2 Corinthians 12
Date
800–1399
Notes
Material
parchment
Object dimensions
(1): H: 10; W: 5 (2): H: 18; W: 7
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
black and red
Lines
(1): hair: 14; flesh: 18 (2): hair: 21; flesh: 22
Height of letters
Description
fragments of two folios of a parchment codex with a text written in black and red; pagination at the top of the page, preserved only on hair side of (1), 77; ink in Old Nubian majuscules;
Decorative elements
State of preservation
fragmentary; (1) presrves small fragment of upper margin; (2) preserved part of one side margin