Text 898
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations, cemetery 2, in situ in grave no. 1
- Excavation no.
- not registered
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 11277
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing & painted
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- fragment of epitaph of unidentified man
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 20; W: 39; Th: 3.5
- Text dimensions
- H: c. 9.5; W: 25.5
- Object colour
- red
- Text colour
- yellow
- Lines
- 5
- Height of letters
- c. 2.5
- Description
- Lower part of a plaque, put together from three pieces, with complete lower margin and lowermost parts of both side margins. The epigraphic field framed by a raised border, 2–2.5 cm in width, leaving broad and low margin of 3.5–5 cm. The border decorated with wavy lines on sides and inscribed with the last line of the text at the bottom. The last letters of inscription written on the margin owing to the lack of space. Decoration and letters painted yellow after firing.
- Decorative elements
- zig-zag decoration incised on the raised border
- State of preservation
- bottom part (glued from 3 pieces) with last four lines and complete lower margin; upper part lost
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 119
- Other editions
- Shinnie - Chittick 1961, p. 86, no. 59, pl. 27b; I. Khartoum Copt. 69, pl. 42, upper
- Other publications
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