Text 879
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- found by Arkell in 1939, findspot not recorded
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 7871
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing & painted
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- unidentified
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- under inv. SNM 7871 three pieces are registered, each from different stela (I. Khartoum Copt. 43, 44, 45 = DBMNT 877, 878, 879)
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 7; W: 7; Th: 2
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- surface greyish-brown
- Text colour
- white
- Lines
- 1
- Height of letters
- c. 2.5
- Description
- Fragment of upper margin of a plaque. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line, leaving outer margin of 3 cm. Traces of white paint on the surface.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; fragment of upper margin
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 169
- Other editions
- I. Khartoum Copt. 45, pl. 27
- Other publications
- Tsakos 2010a, pp. 684–5 (no. 14)
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