Text 899
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations, cemetery 2, near grave no. 3
- Excavation no.
- not registered
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 11278
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing & painted
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 21; W: 33; Th: 3
- Text dimensions
- H: c. 18; W: 29
- Object colour
- surface brown
- Text colour
- yellow (traces in ll. 4, 6)
- Lines
- 6
- Height of letters
- 1.5-2.5
- Description
- Lower part of a plaque, put together from five pieces, with complete lower margin and lowermost parts of both side margins preserved. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line, 2–2.5 cm in width, leaving narrow outer margin of 1.5–2.5 cm in width. The last line of the text written on the bottom margin. The text ruled with incised lines, forming uneven registers, with height varying from 2.5 to 4 cm. Letter painted white or yellow in lines 4 and 6.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; lower part with last 6 lines; 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 142
- Other editions
- Shinnie - Chittick 1961, p. 86, no. 60; I. Khartoum Copt. 70, pl. 42, lower
- Other publications
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