Text 883
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations, northern church ('cottage d')
- Excavation no.
- not registered
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 11273b
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 9; W: 9; Th: 3
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- surface red-brown
- Text colour
- Lines
- 2
- Height of letters
- 1.5–2
- Description
- Fragment of the right margin of a plaque. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line, leaving the right margin of ca. 1 cm in width. The text ruled with incised lines, forming registers of ca. 3 cm in height.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; endings of two lines with fragment of right margin
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 159
- Other editions
- Shinnie - Chittick 1961, p. 80, no. 33; I. Khartoum Copt. 51, pl. 31, upper
- Other publications
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