Text 824

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 11273g
Medium
stela
Technique
incised before firing
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Greek
Content
fragment of epitaph
Date
700–999
Notes
perhaps from the same object as I. Khartoum Greek 50 (DBMNT 823)
Material
terracotta
Object dimensions
H: 12.5; W: 11.8; Th: 2
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
surface brown
Text colour
 
Lines
4
Height of letters
1.7–3
Description
Two joining fragments of the left left margin of a plaque. The epigraphic field framed by a raised border.
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
fragmentary; fragment of left margin with beginning of four lines
Date
700–999
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
I. Ghazali 174
Image
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Source
 
Image
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Latest edition
I. Ghazali 174
Other editions
Shinnie – Chittick 1961, p. 81, no. 38; I. Khartoum Greek 51, pl. 50
Other publications
 
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