Text 823
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations, findspot not recorded
- Excavation no.
- not registered
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 11624
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- fragment of epitaph of monk
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- perhaps from the same object as I. Khartoum Greek 51 (DBMNT 824)
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 8.5; W: 10; Th: 2.2
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- surface brown; core grey
- Text colour
- Lines
- 3
- Height of letters
- 1.6-2.1
- Description
- Fragment of the left margin of a plaque. The epigraphic field framed by a raised border.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; beginnings of three lines with part of left margin
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- most pious (ⲉⲩ]ⲗⲁⲃⲉⲥ[---]): l. 2
brother (= monk) (ⲁⲇⲉⲗⲫ[---]): l. 3
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 89
- Other editions
- Shinnie – Chittick 1961, p. 91, no. 68; I. Khartoum Greek 50, pl. 49
- Other publications
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