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Provenance
Ghazali
Region
Makuria
Findspot
Lepsius's expedition, findspot not recorded
Excavation no.
 
Present location
Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin (lost)
Museum no.
ÄM 2256
Medium
sepulchral cross
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Greek
Content
epitaph of Marianos
Date
700–999
Notes
 
Material
sandstone
Object dimensions
H: 62; W: 30
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
 
Lines
7
Height of letters
not recorded
Description
Complete sepulchral cross in the shape of cross patée. The inscription arranged vertically in the form of a cross. The lower narrower part, undoubtedly serving for mounting the cross in the superstructure of the tomb, left unworked.
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
complete
Date
700–999
Chronological systems
Egyptian calendar
Dating formulae
ⲑⲱ︦ⲑ ⲇ
Transcription
"Thoth 4" (ll. 6–7)
Months
ⲑⲱ︦ⲑ︦
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
Silaike (ⲥⲓⲗⲁⲓ̈ⲕⲉ): l. 5
Source
I. Ghazali 206
Image
Image not available
Source
Lepsius 1849–59, 6 (plates), 12, pl. 99, Gr. 558: https://edoc3.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/lepsius/tafelwa6.html
Image
Image not available
Latest edition
I. Ghazali 206
Other editions
CIG 4 9126; I. Lefebvre 612; Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, p. 256; SB 5 8732
Other publications
Lepsius 1849–59: 5 (text), p. 292; 6 (plates), 12, pl. 99, Gr. 558; Erman 1899, p. 412 (description and German translation); Junker 1925, p. 120 (on l. 5)
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