Text 886
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations, cemetery 2, unknown circumstances
- Excavation no.
- not registered
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 11273h
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- keleusis type
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 13; W: 14; Th: 4.5 (with frame)
- Text dimensions
- H: c. 5; W: 9
- Object colour
- red
- Text colour
- Lines
- 2 (3 reconstructed)
- Height of letters
- 2–2.5
- Description
- Fragment of the upper right part of a round-topped plaque. The epigraphic field framed by a raised border, ca. 2 cm wide, leaving outer margin of 3–4 cm in width.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- upper right part; endings of lines with fragment of upper and right margins; lower part lost
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 54
- Other editions
- Shinnie - Chittick 1961, p. 81, no. 39; I. Khartoum Copt. 56, pl. 33, lower
- Other publications
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