Text 818
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- originally found by Lepsius in unknown conditions; rediscovered in cemetery 2 by Shinnie and Chittick
- Excavation no.
- not registered
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 11610
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- fragment of epitaph of unidentified man
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- 'God of the spirits' type
Barnes in ed. pr. wrongly SNM 11615
The object is most certainly identical with the one found and depicted by Lepsius (pl. 99, Gr. 548 = DBMNT 973); this was suggested already by Łajtar, but no definite answer was given.
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 35; W: 30; Th: 9
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- grey
- Text colour
- Lines
- 7
- Height of letters
- 1.5–2.3
- Description
- Lower part of a slab with a large fragment of the right margin and a smaller of the left one preserved.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; portions of left and right margins preserved; surface much worn and damaged; inscription hardly legible in the first lines
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- I. Ghazali 148
- Image
-
- Source
- Lepsius 1849–59, 6 (plates), 12, pl. 99, Gr. 548
- Image
-
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 148 (after Lepsius and I. Khartoum Greek)
- Other editions
- CIG 4 9124 (after Lepsius); Revillout 1885, p. 16, no. 23 (after Lepsius); I. Lefebvre 608 (after Lepsius); Weissbrodt 1909, pp. 13–14, no. 26 (after Lepsius); SB 5 8731 (after Lepsius); I. Nubia Tibiletti Bruno 28 (after Lepsius); Shinnie – Chittick 1961, p. 78, no. 26 (after the stone); I. Khartoum Greek 41, pl. 40 (after the stone; cf. p. 149)
- Other publications
- Lepsius 1849–59: 5 (text), p. 292; 6 (plates), 12, pl. 99, Gr. 548; le Blant 1869, p. 81; Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, p. 255; Tibiletti Bruno 1963, p. 506 (on variant of the prayer); I. QI, p. 83 with n. 98
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