Text 895
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations, cemetery 2, north part
- Excavation no.
- not registered
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 11273s
- 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: 12; W: 9; Th: 2
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- surface red-brown
- Text colour
- Lines
- 4
- Height of letters
- c. 2
- Description
- Fragment of a plaque, without margins. In the upper right corner of the fragment there are three incised lines visible, constituting probably the lower left corner of a rectangular/square frame in the centre of the stela.
- Decorative elements
- in upper part right part three incised lines at right angles, presumably part of cross or decorative panel
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; broken on all sides; remains of four lines
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 212
- Other editions
- Shinnie - Chittick 1961, p. 84, no. 50; I. Khartoum Copt. 65, pl. 38, lower
- Other publications
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