Text 913
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
-
(a): Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations, findspot not recorded (surface?)
(b): Polish-Sudanese excavations, fill above south church - Excavation no.
- (a): not registered
(b): G.13.004 - Present location
- (a): Sudan National Museum, Khartoum (b): Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima
- Museum no.
- (a): SNM 11624d (b): not registered
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- fragment of epitaph of unidentified monk (?)
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- probably pronoia or keleusis type
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- (a): H: 16.5; W: 19.5; Th.: 3
(b): H: 11.2; W: 13.6; Th: 3 - Text dimensions
- Object colour
- core black, front red, back, reddish grey
- Text colour
- Lines
- 7 (8 reconstructed)
- Height of letters
- 1–1.2 (ϩ: 2.2)
- Description
- Two non-joining fragments of apparently the same plaque. Original edges have not been preserved, but on the right side of fragment (b), a shallowly incised line is discernible, most probably marking the epigraphic field; the width of the right margin is more than 2 cm. Inscription shallowly incised probably after firing.
Porous Nile clay with considerable organic and mineral admixture (mica, quartzite, limestone?). - Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; fragment of right margin preserved
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- brother (= monk) ([ⲥⲟⲛ]): l. 8
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 67
- Other editions
- Shinnie - Chittick 1961, p. 91, no. 71 (fragment [a]); I. Khartoum Copt. 92, pl. 57, lower (fragment [a])
- Other publications
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