Text 908
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations, findspot not recorded
- Excavation no.
- not registered
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 11617
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- pronoia type
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- (a): H: 17; W: 14; Th: 6
(a): H: 15; W: 18; Th: 6 - Text dimensions
- Object colour
- yellow-brown
- Text colour
- Lines
- 4
- Height of letters
- c. 2
- Description
- Two non-joining pieces of a slab: (a) – upper right corner; (b) – part of the left margin. On the latter, the text is completely obliterated, the former has preserved endings of four topmost lines. The epigraphic field framed by a slightly raised border, forming the margins of ca. 2.5 cm on the top and 3 cm on the right. The text ruled with the help of incised lines, forming even registers of ca. 2.5 cm in height.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; (a) text completely damaged; fragment of left margin; (b): endings of lines with portions of upper and right margins; surface worn
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 34
- Other editions
- Shinnie - Chittick 1961, p. 78, no. 28; I. Khartoum Copt. 86, pl. 53, lower
- Other publications
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