Text 896
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations, room to the north of northern church
- Excavation no.
- not registered
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 11274
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 20; W: 16; Th: 15
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- light-brown
- Text colour
- Lines
- 5 (6 reconstructed)
- Height of letters
- 2–3
- Description
- Fragment of the left margin of a slab, near the lower corner. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line, leaving margin of ca. 1.5 cm in width. Judging by the reconstruction of line 3, roughly a half of the width of the stone is missing.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; lower part of left margin with beginnings of last five lines
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 109
- Other editions
- Shinnie - Chittick 1961, p. 85, no. 57; I. Khartoum Copt. 66, pl. 39, upper
- Other publications
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