Text 681
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations, from buildings to the north of the northern church, re-used in apparently two different constructions
- Excavation no.
- not registered
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 11282
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- epitaph of Merkourios (?), monk
- Date
- circa 800–899
- Notes
- pronoia type
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 49.5; W: 25; Th: 9
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- light-grey
- Text colour
- Lines
- 17
- Height of letters
- 1.5–3
- Description
- Almost complete slab, put together from two pieces, of roughly rectangular shape, with the narrowing lower, uninscribed part. The epigraphic field marked off by an incised line at the top, leaving a wide uninscribed margin of ca. 3 cm. Lower surface, ca. 15 cm height, left uninscribed, probably serving for mounting the stone in the superstructure.
- Decorative elements
- Decorative last line containing the alpha – omega acclamation in big script (note the broken-bar alpha) flanking a seven-pointed star.
- State of preservation
- considerably damaged; put together from two pieces; middle part of right margin missing; text much obliterated in central part
- Date
- circa 800–899
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲛ · ⲕⲉ
- Transcription
- "Pachon 25" (l. 1)
- Months
- ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲛ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- brother (= monk) ([ⲡⲉ]ⲛ̣[ⲥⲟⲛ]): l. 7
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 18
- Other editions
- Shinnie – Chittick 1961, p. 89, no. 64, pl. 28; I. Khartoum Copt. 73, pl. 44
- Other publications
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