Text 882
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
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(a): Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations, north of monastery
(b): Polish-Sudanese excavations, fill of southern church - Excavation no.
- (a): not registered
(b): G.13.013 - Present location
- (a): Sudan National Museum, Khartoum (b): Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima
- Museum no.
- (a): SNM 11272 (b): not registered
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- (a): H: 20; W: 20; Th: 9
(b): H: 20; W: 14.5; Th: 7.5
Total width: c. 30 - Text dimensions
- Object colour
- light grey; after conservation, the front surface of fragment (b) has changed colour to light brown
- Text colour
- Lines
- 4
- Height of letters
- 1–2
- Description
- Two joining fragments of a slab, forming the complete lower part of the stela, with bottom margin and lowermost fragments of both side margins. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line on all sides, forming margins of 2.5 cm on the sides and 4.8–7 cm on the bottom. Lowermost part of epigraphic field left uninscribed.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; two fragments forming bottom part of stela; before conservation fragment (b) very fragile and powdery, after it more durable but original colour lost
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 161
- Other editions
- Shinnie - Chittick 1961, p. 85, no. 56 (fragment [a]); I. Khartoum Copt. 50, pl. 30, lower (fragment [a])
- Other publications
- Ochała in Obłuski et alii 2017, pp. 382 and 384 (discussed as forming one object with DBMNT 4268 and 4221)
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