Text 835
- Provenance
- el-Koro
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- unknown
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 7853 (fr. a) + 7846 (fr. b)
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- probably 700–999
- Notes
- 'God of the spirits' type
fr. a: provenance not recorded
fr. b: el-Koro (S of Abu Hamed)
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- fr. a: H: 18.5; W: 8; Th: 2.8-3.6
fr. b: H: 12.5; W: 12; Th: 3-3.4 - Text dimensions
- Object colour
- surface red-brown; core black
- Text colour
- Lines
- 8
- Height of letters
- 1.0-1.5
- Description
- two non joining fragments of rectangular plaque (A: upper left corner and left edge; B: right side with margin); epigraphic field framed by deeply incised line
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; large upper part with beginnings and second halves of lines with portions of left, right, and upper margins; middle and lower parts lost
- Date
- probably 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Khartoum Greek 62, pl. 60
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Tsakos 2010a, p. 687 (no. 22)
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