Text 939
- Provenance
- Umm Ruweim
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- site F
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 11313 h
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- 700–1099
- Notes
- Wadi Abu Dom
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 12; W: 5.5; Th: 2.5
- Text dimensions
- H: 11; W: 4.5
- Object colour
- brown
- Text colour
- Lines
- 4
- Height of letters
- c. 2.0
- Description
- fragment of slab; epigraphic field framed by incised line, flat outer margin W: 1.0-1.5; ruling (H of register: 3.0-4.5); lines 2–3 occupy one ruled space
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; lower left corner with beginnings of last lines and portions of left and lower margins; surface very much worn; no coherent text can be reconstructed
- Date
- 700–1099
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Khartoum Copt. 118, pl. 70
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Chittick 1955, p. 88; Tsakos 2010a, p. 685 (no. 15)
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