Text 892
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
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(a): Polish-Sudanese excavations, room 38
(b): Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations, west of monastery - Excavation no.
- (a): Gh.2015.1.001
(b): not registered - Present location
- (a): Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima (b): Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- (a): not registered (b): SNM 11273o
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- fragment of epitaph of Theodoros
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- pronoia type
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- (a) H: 15.5; W: 13.8
(b) H: 14; W: 7; Th: 2.5
Reconstructed: H: 16; W: c. 28; Th.: 2.5 - Text dimensions
- Object colour
- core black, surface red
- Text colour
- Lines
- 5 (8 reconstructed)
- Height of letters
- 2–3.2 (ϥ in l. 8: 4.2)
- Description
- Two non-joining pieces of apparently one plaque: (a) – left margin; (b) – right margin. About a quarter of the total width is missing in the centre. The pieces have preserved fragments of five lines (ll. 4–8 of the edition below); probably three lines missing from the top.
Porous Nile clay with organic and considerable mineral admixture (mica, quartzite). - Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary, central parts of left and right margins preserved
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- brother (= monk) ([ⲡⲉ]ⲛ̣ⲥⲟⲛ): l. 6
monk (ⲙ̣ⲟⲛ[ⲁⲭⲟⲥ]): ll. 7–8
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 41
- Other editions
- Shinnie - Chittick 1961, p. 83, no. 46 (fragment [b]); I. Khartoum Copt. 62, pl. 37 (fragment [b])
- Other publications
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