Text 819
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations, cemetery 2, unknown circumstances
- Excavation no.
- not registered
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 11609
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- fragment of epitaph of unidentified man
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 19.5; W: 20; Th: 8
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- white-grey
- Text colour
- Lines
- 8 (9 reconstructed)
- Height of letters
- 1–1.8
- Description
- Lower part of a slab with rounded lower edge. Complete bottom margin and lower parts of both side margins preserved. The epigraphic field framed by a high raised border.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- incomplete; upper part completely destroyed; surface badly worn in the lower right part, completely defacing the inscription
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 78
- Other editions
- Shinnie – Chittick 1961, p. 76, no. 19; I. Khartoum Greek 43, pl. 42
- Other publications
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