Text 907
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations, cemetery 2, unknown circumstances
- Excavation no.
- not registered
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 11616
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 19; W: 35; Th: 7
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- greyish-yellow
- Text colour
- Lines
- 2
- Height of letters
- c. 2
- Description
- Two joining pieces forming the lowermost part of a slab with complete bottom margin and lowermost fragments of the side margins. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line, leaving the margins of ca. 2.5 cm on the left, 3 cm on the right and 8.5 cm on the bottom. The last line containing a series of crosses (perhaps three) was written on the broad lower margin.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; lower part of stela; broken into two halves, left one almost entirely disintegrated
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 165
- Other editions
- Shinnie - Chittick 1961, p. 78, no. 27; I. Khartoum Copt. 85, pl. 53, upper
- Other publications
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