Text 691
- Provenance
- Dongola
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Muslim tomb, north-east of throne hall, reused in tomb construction
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 32120
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- 29 August 873–28 August 874
- Notes
- Material
- marble
- Object dimensions
- H: 15; W: 24; Th: 4
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- 3 + 2 on border
- Height of letters
- Description
- irregular fragment of round (?) stela; inside part forming recessed epigraphic field; inscription running also on raised border; reused as door hinge
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; no original edge preserved; in middle part circular hole after door pivot; text clearly legible
- Date
- 29 August 873–28 August 874
- Chronological systems
- Era of Diocletian
- Dating formulae
- [---ⲇⲓⲟ]ⳤ ⲫϙ̄[ ̣]
- Transcription
- "(in the year) from Diocletian 590 (?)" (l. 2)
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- unpublished; description in Tsakos 2009b, pp. 206, 212–13 (no. 26), fig. 5
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Khidir Adam Eisa 1992, pp. 278–279, fig. 4 (with incorrect date); CSBE(2), p. 82, n. 98 (with incorrect date)
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