Text 891
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
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(a), (b), (d): Polish-Sudanese excavations:
(a): room Z
(b): room 104, fill, east side
(d): outside monastery, west of south gate
(c): Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations, cemetery 2, unknown circumstances - Excavation no.
- (a): Gh.2015.1.034
(b): Gh.2015.2.038
(c): not registered
(d): Gh.2016.1.190 - Present location
- (a), (b), (d): Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima (c): Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- (a), (b), (d): not registered (c): SNM 11273n
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- epitaph of Philotheos
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- 'God of the spirits'
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- (a): H: 16.2; W: 18; Th: c. 3
(b)+(c)+(d): H: 14.5; W: 16.5; Th: c. 3
reconstructed: H: 24; W: 31; Th: c. 3 - Text dimensions
- Object colour
- core black, front and back red to black, side greyish red
- Text colour
- Lines
- 6
- Height of letters
- 1.5–2.5 (ⲫ: 4)
- Description
- Four fragments (three joining) of a plaque: (a) – central part, no margins; (b)–(d) – central part of right margin. The epigraphic field framed by a broad groove, ca. 1.5 cm wide. Fragment (a) heavily worn and hardly legible, especially in the lower part.
Very porous Nile clay with considerable organic and mineral admixture (mica, quartzite). - Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; central part (a) and fragment of right margin (b+c+d); fragment (a) heavily worn and eroded in lower part
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 10
- Other editions
- Shinnie - Chittick 1961, p. 82, no. 45 (fragment [c]); I. Khartoum Copt. 61, pl. 36 (fragment [c])
- Other publications
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