Text 838
- Provenance
- el-Koro
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- not recorded
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 9504 V
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- probably 700–999
- Notes
- S of Abu Hamed
'God of the spirits' type
perhaps fragments registered as SNM 9504 O,U, Y, BB, & GG are from the same object (only with traces of letters preserved on them)
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 8.5; W: 12; Th: 3
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- surface orange brown; core black
- Text colour
- Lines
- 4
- Height of letters
- 1.1-2.0
- Description
- fragment of plaque or stela
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; broken on all sides; only few letters; surface much worn and damaged
- 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 66, pl. 64
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Tsakos 2010a, p. 687 (no. 22)
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