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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/Old Nubian
Content
epitaph of ---ilo, priest and archimandrite
Date
700–999
Notes
last line in Old Nubian
Material
sandstone
Object dimensions
H: 40; W: 33; Th: 7
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
grey
Text colour
 
Lines
12
Height of letters
 
Description
Lower part of a rectangular slab, with complete bottom margin and large fragments of the side ones. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line, crossing in corners, at the top and bottom.
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
incomplete; upper part lacking
Date
700–999
Chronological systems
Egyptian calendar
Dating formulae
ⲉⲛ ⲙⲏⲛⲓ ⲉⲡⲓⲫⲓ ⲕ̄︤ⲉ̄︥
Transcription
"in the month of Epeiph, (day) 25" (l. 2)
Months
ⲉⲡⲓⲫⲓ
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
priest (⳦): ll. 1, 12
archimandrite (ⲁⲣ[⸌ⲭ⸍]ⲙⲁⲛ⸌ⲇ⸍): l. 1
asti of Pidd (?) (ⲡⲓⲇⲇⲓⲛ ⲁⲥⲧⲏⲗ): l. 12 (Donadoni 1986: ⲡⲓⳝⳝⲓⲛ ⲁⲥⲧⲏⲗ; corr. Ochała 2016a)
Toponyms & ethnonyms
Pidd (?) (ⲡⲓⲇⲇⲓⲛ): l. 12 (Donadoni 1986: ⲡⲓⳝⳝⲓⲛ; corr. Ochała 2016a)
Source
I. Ghazali 75
Image
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Source
 
Image
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Latest edition
I. Ghazali 75
Other editions
Donadoni 1986, pp. 226–7, fig. 3
Other publications
Łajtar 1992a, p. 121, no. 10; Tsakos 2009a, pp. 220–1, no. 3, fig. 2; Ochała 2016a, p. 1281 with n. 42
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