DBMNT

Provenance: Ghazali
Region: Makuria
Findspot: (a), (b): Polish-Sudanese excavations:
(a): fill east of southern church
(b): fill of southern church

(c): Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations, cemetery 2, unknown circumstances
Excavation no.: (a): G.13.006
(b): G.13.011
(c): I 22 + not registered?
Present location: (a), (b): Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima (c) Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.: (a), (b): not registered (c): SNM 11276 + SNM11624c

Material: terracotta
Object dimensions: (a) H: 11.5; W: 12; Th: 3
(b) H: 13; W: 8.7; Th: 2.6
(c) H: 20; W: 25; Th: 3
reconstructed dimensions: H: c. 41; W: c. 30; Th: 2.6–3
Text dimensions
Object colour: core black, front red, sides and back red to grey
Text colour
Lines: 14
Height of letters: 1.3–1.5 (ϩ, ⲣ: c. 2.4; ϯ: 3.2)

Description: Several fragments (one not joining) of a rectangular plaque with slightly curved left edge. The left and bottom margins largely preserved, from the upper margin only a fragment of its left part, near the corner survives. The epigraphic field framed by a deeply incised line, leaving uninscribed margins of 1.3–2 cm on the left and 1.7–1.9 cm on the top.

Porous Nile clay with organic and mineral admixture (mica, quartzite).
Decorative elements
State of preservation: incomplete; upper right quarter with the whole right margin missing; from upper left quarter only two pieces preserved

Offices & titles: brother (= monk) (?) ([ⲡⲉⲛⲥⲟⲛ]): l. 5
monk (?) ([ⲡⲙⲟⲛⲁⲭⲟⲥ]): l. 6

Latest edition: I. Ghazali 30
Other editions: Shinnie - Chittick 1961, p. 73, no. 10, ll. 5–10, cf. p. 77, no. 22 and p. 91, no. 70 (fragment [c]); I. Khartoum Copt. 68, ll. 7–12, pl. 41, lower (fragment [c])

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