DBMNT

Provenance: Ghazali
Region: Makuria
Findspot: Lepsius's expedition, findspot not recorded
Excavation no.
Present location: Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, Berlin (previously Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin)
Museum no.: 9672 (old nos. ÄM 1484 + 1501 + 1502)

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: epitaph of Petros, monk
Date: 700–999
Notes: part of the same object was published as I. Lef. 610 (previously recorded as DBMNT 475)

Description: Three joining pieces of the upper part of a rectangular slab, with complete upper margin and the uppermost part of both side margins preserved. A fourth fragment belonging to the lower margin, was documented by Lepsius, but now is apparently lost; it should most probably be located in the lower left corner of the stela. The epigraphic field framed by a slightly raised border, 1.8 cm wide.
Decorative elements
State of preservation: incomplete, lower part missing; in present state the stela is put together from three fragments, preserving entire upper margin and upper parts of both side margins; Lepsius recorded a fourth piece with portion of lower margin, but it does not match the remaining fragments

Source: Lepsius 1849–59, VI (plates), 12, pl. 99, Gr. 549: https://edoc3.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/lepsius/tafelwa6.html
Image: Full-size image

Other publications: Lepsius 1849–59: 5 (text), p. 292; 6 (plates), 12, pl. 99, Gr. 549 (= 552 + 555); Erman 1899, p. 412 (description and fragmentary German translation); Junker 1925, pp. 127, sub 6 (transcription of ll. 1–3); Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, p. 255

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