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- 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
- Greek
- Content
- epitaph of Ioannes, priest, nephew/cousin of bishop
- Date
- probably 800–999
- Notes
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 55; W: 35; Th: 10
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- grey
- Text colour
- Lines
- 19
- Height of letters
- Description
- Nearly complete rectangular slab with rounded corners. The upper right corner and a small fragment of the lower right one chipped off. The epigraphic field marked off with incised lines at the top and bottom; the side line, preserved only on the left, incised only at the height of lines 1–3 and 19.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- almost complete but for upper and lower right corners and some lacunas in upper and left margins
- Date
- probably 800–999
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- ⲉⲛ ⲙⲏ ⲁⲑⲩⲣ ⲅ
- Transcription
- "in the month of Athyr, (day) 3" (l. 13)
- Months
- ⲁⲑⲩⲣ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- priest (ⲡⲣⲉ︦ⲥ): l. 9
bishop (ⲧⲟⲩ ⲉⲡⲓⲥⲕⲟⲡⲟⲩ): l. 10
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 71
- Other editions
- Donadoni 1986, pp. 224–6, fig. 2; Łajtar 2001c, pp. 185–6
- Other publications
- Tsakos 2009a, p. 220 (no. 2), fig. 1; Łajtar 2014b, p. 225, with n. 18
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