Text 860
- Provenance
- Akasha-West
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- Christian enclosed settlement on west bank (site 21-N-11)
- Excavation no.
- 21-N-11/48 A+B
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 23038 A+B
- Medium
- pottery
- Technique
- incised before firing
- Type of text
- unidentified
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- fragment of inscription mentioning Saint Epimachos (name of church or monastery?)
- Date
- 600–1199
- Notes
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- A: H: 13; W: 27.5; Th. 2.0-3.0;
B: H: 13; W: 14; Th: 3 - Text dimensions
- Object colour
- red-brown
- Text colour
- Lines
- A: 3
- Height of letters
- 1.5-2.0
- Description
- two non joining fragments from the broad inner rim of round basin
- Decorative elements
- ornament in form of fish with heads turned towards the lowered center of basin
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; A: endings of lines with portions of upper and left margins; B: ornament
- Date
- 600–1199
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- (church of) Saint Epimachos (?) (ⲙ̄ⲡϩⲁ[ⲅⲓⲟⲥ ⲉⲡⲓ]ⲙⲁⲭⲟⲥ): ll. 1–2
- Latest edition
- I. Khartoum Copt. 24, pl. 17 (fr. A)
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Edwards 2019, pp. 64–5, fig. 9b–c; Obłuski 2019, pp. 8, 10
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