Text 889
- 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 11273l
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing & painted
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- keleusis type
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 7; W: 22; Th: 2
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- red
- Text colour
- yellow (?)
- Lines
- 2
- Height of letters
- c. 2
- Description
- Almost complete uppermost part of a plaque, put together from three fragments; only the upper right corner missing with only one letter in line 1. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line, leaving narrow outer margin of ca. 1 cm in width. Traces of yellow (?) paint in letters.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- upper part put toghether from 3 pieces; almost complete left margin and portion of the right one; right corner chipped off; lower part lost; surface heavily worn and barely legible, especially in line 2
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 52
- Other editions
- Shinnie - Chittick 1961, p. 82, no. 43; I. Khartoum Copt. 59, pl. 35, upper
- Other publications
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