Text 608
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Lepsius's expedition, findspot not recorded
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin (lost)
- Museum no.
- ÄM 1494
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- epitaph of Abraham, monk
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 43; W: 32
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- 8 (9 reconstructed)
- Height of letters
- not recorded
- Description
- Incomplete rectangular plaque, put together from three joining pieces. Upper right corner and lower margin containing the last line of the text missing.
- Decorative elements
- A decorative cross at the beginning of line 1.
- State of preservation
- stela put together form three pieces; incomplete; upper right corner broken off; lower and left-hand margins complete; upper and right-hand margins preserved in half
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- ⲙ⸌ⲏ⸍ ⲉ⸌ⲡ⸍ⲫⲓ ⲓⲉ
- Transcription
- "in the month of Phaophi, (day) 15" (l. 7)
- Months
- ⲉ⸌ⲡ⸍ⲫⲓ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- brother (= monk) (ⲡⲛ̣̄ⲥⲟⲛ): ll. 5–6
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- I. Ghazali 28
- Image
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- Source
- Lepsius 1849–59, VI (plates), 12, pl. 103, 56: https://edoc3.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/lepsius/tafelwa6.html
- Image
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- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 28
- Other editions
- Revillout 1885, p. 32, no. 46; Mallon 1914, cols. 2883–4; SB Kopt. 1 490
- Other publications
- Lepsius 1849–59: 5 (text), p. 292; 6 (plates), 12, pl. 103, 56; Erman 1899, p. 413 (description and partial German translation); Junker 1925, p. 131 (transcription of ll. 1–5), 132; Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, p. 255
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