Text 455
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- collected in 1979 by the Italian mission to Gebel Barkal; reportedly brought to light at Ghazali by a large flood passing through Wadi Abu Dom
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima
- Museum no.
- not registered
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- epitaph of Kyriakos
- Date
- circa 800–899
- Notes
- pronoia type
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 41; W: 30; Th: 8
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- 12 (13 reconstructed)
- Height of letters
- Description
- Roughly rectangular slab, almost complete, with both upper corners chipped off and the lowermost part missing, with an unknown number of lines. The epigraphic field, ca. 25 cm wide, framed by a deeply incised line, leaving uneven outer margins. The text ruled with the help of incised lines, forming uneven registers, narrower on the top and growing wider towards the bottom. The text only partly respects the ruling: lines 6–9 inscribed within only two registers. The surface badly worn, which makes the text hardly legible in many places, especially in lines 4–6.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- badly preserved; bottom part lacking; surface much worn; lines 4-6 almost illegible
- Date
- circa 800–899
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- ⲙⲏⲛⲓ̣ ⲡⲁ̣ⲭⲱ̣ⲛ ⲓ̣ ̣
- Transcription
- "in the month of Pachon, (day) 1x" (ll. 8–9)
- Months
- ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲛ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- brother (= monk) (ⲡ̣[ⲉ]ⲛ̣ⲥ̣[ⲟ]ⲛ̣): l. 7
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 19
- Other editions
- Donadoni 1986, pp. 223–4, fig. 1
- Other publications
- Łajtar 2001a, p. 332; Tsakos 2009a, p. 220 (no. 1), fig. Coptic 1 (description)
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