Text 680
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations, surface find
- Excavation no.
- not registered
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 11596
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing & painted
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- fragment of epitaph of Chael (?), monk (?)
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 15.5; W: 16; Th: 3.5
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- surface brownish
- Text colour
- remains of white paint
- Lines
- 7
- Height of letters
- c. 1.5
- Description
- Central right part of a plaque with a fragment of the right margin. The epigraphic field framed by a double incised line, leaving margin of ca. 1.5 cm. Traces of white paint in letters.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; central part of right margin
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- [ⲛⲥⲟ]ⲩ̣ ϫⲟⲩⲱⲧ [ⲙⲡⲉⲃⲟ]ⲧ ⲧⲩⲃⲓ
- Transcription
- "on day twenty of the month of Tybi" (ll. 2–3)
- Months
- ⲧⲩⲃⲓ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- brother (= monk) (?) ([ⲡⲉⲛⲥⲟ]ⲛ̣): l. 1
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 112
- Other editions
- Shinnie – Chittick 1961, p. 72, no. 6; I. Khartoum Copt. 78, pl. 49, upper
- Other publications
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