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- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations, findspot not recorded
- Excavation no.
- I 69
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 11621
- Medium
- sepulchral cross
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 13; W: 10; Th: 7.3
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- grey-brown
- Text colour
- Lines
- 5
- Height of letters
- 1.2-1.6
- Description
- Upper fragment of the vertical bar of a sepulchral cross, with parts of the upper and both side margins preserved; upper right corner broken off. Back side only roughly worked. The ending of line 4 written on the right side surface of the fragment.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; only upper arm preserved
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 210
- Other editions
- Shinnie – Chittick 1961, p. 90, no. 65; I. Khartoum Greek 45, pl. 44
- Other publications
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