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TrismegistosTM text 101558

Provenance: Ghazali
Region: Makuria
Findspot: Lepsius's expedition, findspot not recorded
Excavation no.
Present location: Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, Berlin (previously Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin)
Museum no.: 9673 (old no. ÄM 1508)

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Coptic
Content: fragment of epitaph of unidentified man
Date: circa 800–899
Notes: pronoia-type

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 26; W: 32
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Lines: 7
Height of letters

Description: Upper part of a rectangular slab with almost complete upper margin, left margin preserved in the upper part, and a small fragment of the right margin preserved at the height of line 3. The epigraphic field framed by shallowly incised line, best visible in the upper part of left margin (3.5–4 cm wide at the left, ca. 3 cm on top). Ruling in the form of faintly incised lines, visible only between lines 1, 2, and 3. The text rises slightly upwards towards the right margin. The upper right corner was chipped off, and the lower left part is completely defaced and illegible. In the time of Lepsius, the stone was in a better condition, with lower right-hand part still in place. There is, however, a crack visible on Lepsius’sdrawing, which suggests that the stone had already been broken. The fate of this fragment is unknown, it was presumably left on the site by Lepsius.
Decorative elements
State of preservation: fragmentary; upper margin almost complete, left margin preserved in upper part, small fragment of right margin preserved at the height of line 3; upper right corner chipped off; lower left part completely defaced and illegible

Date: circa 800–899
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Source: I. Ghazali 21
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Source: Lepsius 1849–59, 6 (plates), 12, pl. 103, 50
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: I. Ghazali 21
Other editions: Revillout 1885, p. 32, no. 47; SB Kopt. 1 491

Other publications: Lepsius 1849–59: 5 (text), p. 292; 6 (plates), 12, pl. 103, 50; Junker 1925, p. 132 (transcription and reconstruction of ll. 3–4); Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, p. 255; Cramer 1949, p. 10 (basic description)

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Content: the same as DBMNT 727
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TrismegistosTM text 369960

Provenance: Ghazali
Region: Makuria
Findspot: Lepsius's expedition, findspot not recorded
Excavation no.
Present location: Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, Berlin (previously Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin; now lost)
Museum no.: 9681 (old no. ÄM 1496)

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Coptic
Content: fragment of epitaph
Date: 700–999
Notes

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 10.8; W: 11
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: 3 (4 reconstructed)
Height of letters: not recorded

Description: Lower left corner of a slab. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line.
Decorative elements
State of preservation: fragmentary; lower left corner with beginning of three lowermost lines

Date: 700–999
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Source: Lepsius 1849–59, 6 (plates), 12, pl. 103, 52
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Latest edition: I. Ghazali 145
Other editions

Other publications: Lepsius 1849–59: 5 (text), p. 292; 6 (plates), 12, pl. 103, 45 (= 52); Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, p. 255; Cramer 1949, p. 11 (basic description)

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TrismegistosTM text 369961

Provenance: Ghazali
Region: Makuria
Findspot: Lepsius's expedition, findspot not recorded
Excavation no.
Present location: Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, Berlin (previously Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin; now lost)
Museum no.: 9683 (old no. ÄM 1482)

Medium: stela
Technique: incised before firing
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Coptic
Content: fragment of epitaph
Date: 700–999
Notes: pronoia or keleusis type
wrong inventory number (1428) in Cramer 1949

Material: terracotta
Object dimensions: H: 9.5; W: 8.5
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Object colour
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Lines: 3
Height of letters: not recorded

Description: Upper left corner of a plaque. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line.
Decorative elements
State of preservation: fragmentary; upper left corner with fragments of upper and left margins

Date: 700–999
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Source: Lepsius 1849–59, VI (plates), 12, pl. 103, 54
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Latest edition: I. Ghazali 63
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Other publications: Lepsius 1849–59: 5 (text), p. 292; 6 (plates), 12, pl. 103, 54; Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, p. 255; Cramer 1949, p. 11 (basic description)

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TrismegistosTM text 101498

Provenance: Ghazali
Region: Makuria
Findspot: Lepsius's expedition, findspot not recorded
Excavation no.
Present location: Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, Berlin (previously Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin; now lost)
Museum no.: 9787 (old no. ÄM 1497)

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Coptic
Content: fragment of epitaph of unidentified man
Date: 700–999
Notes

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 17; W: 32
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: 4 (5 reconstructed)
Height of letters: not recorded

Description: Lower part of a stela with complete bottom margin and the lowermost fragments of both side margins preserved. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line. The text ruled with nicely executed incised lines, forming registers of apparently even height, apart from the lowermost one, twice smaller than the other ones. Due to the bad planning of the inscription on the stone, the ending of the text is written outside the epigraphic field, beyond the borderline at the end of line 3 and in the lower right corner of the stela.
Decorative elements
State of preservation: fragmentary; only lowermost part preserved

Date: 700–999
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Source: I. Ghazali 80
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Source: Lepsius 1849–59, 6 (plates), 12, pl. 103, 51
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: I. Ghazali 80
Other editions: Junker 1925b, pp. 121–2, pl. after p. 112; SB Kopt. 1 431

Other publications: Lepsius 1849–59: 5 (text), p. 292; 6 (plates), 12, pl. 103, 51; Erman 1899, p. 413 (description and partial German translation); Wiessbrodt 1905/6, p. 19, no. XXII (comm. to ll. 3–4); Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, p. 255; Cramer 1949, p. 12 (basic description)

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TrismegistosTM text 369962

Provenance: Ghazali
Region: Makuria
Findspot: Lepsius's expedition, findspot not recorded
Excavation no.
Present location: Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, Berlin (previously Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin)
Museum no.: 9999 (old no. ÄM 1492)

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Coptic
Content: epitaph of Chael, priest and archimandrite
Date: 700–999
Notes: pronoia type

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 39; W: 24.5; Th: 12–13
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Object colour: light brown
Text colour
Lines: 11
Height of letters: 1.6–2.5

Description: Roughly rectangular slab, almost complete apart from the lower left corner which was chipped off damaging the last line of the text. Surface heavily worn and barely legible in many places.
Decorative elements
State of preservation: incomplete; lower part broken off; surface barely legible in places

Date: 700–999
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar

Dating formulae: ⲙⲉⲥⲟⲣⲏ ⲓ̣̄
Transcription: "Mesore 10", l. 8
Months: ⲙⲉⲥⲟⲣⲏ
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Offices & titles: father (= abbot) ([ⲡ]ⲉⲛⲉⲓⲱⲧ): ll. 6–7
priest (⳦̣): l. 7
archimandrite (ⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍): l. 7

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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: I. Ghazali 27
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Source: Lepsius 1849–59, 6 (plates), 12, pl. 103, 48
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Latest edition: I. Ghazali 27
Other editions: Cramer 1949, pp. 12–13 (ll. 1–7), pl. 1

Other publications: Lepsius 1849–1859: 5 (text), p. 292; 6 (plates), 12, pl. 103, 48; Monneret de Villard 1935–1957: 1, p. 255; Obłuski 2019, pp. 277, 290

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TrismegistosTM text 104315

Provenance: Sheikh Arab Hag
Region: Makuria
Findspot: not recorded
Excavation no.
Present location: Sheikhan Museum, el-Obeid
Museum no.: SNM 29

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: epitaph of Angelosko
Date: 700–1299
Notes: north of Dongola, east bank
'God of the spirits' type

Material: marble
Object dimensions: H: 22; W: 17
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Lines: 23
Height of letters: 0.5

Description: no photo available
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State of preservation: complete

Date: 700–1299
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Toponyms & ethnonyms: (Church of) Komati (ⲕⲟⲙⲁⲧⲓ): l. 19

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Latest edition: I. Nubia Tibiletti Bruno 2
Other editions: Crowfoot 1927, pp. 228–229 (no. 2); SB 4 7429; SEG 8 872

Other publications: Monneret de Villard 1935–1957: 1, p. 245; Oates 1963, p. 163 (no. 16); Tibiletti Bruno 1963, passim; Žabkar 1967, p. 17; Łajtar 1996c, p. 107 (no. 26); Łajtar – van der Vliet 1998, pp. 52–53 (no. 17); Hinkel – Abdelrahman Ali Mohamed 2002, p. 3; Tsakos 2009b, pp. 204, 206 (no. 3); Łajtar 2014b, p. 224

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TrismegistosTM text 104317

Provenance: Debeiba
Region: Makuria
Findspot: unknown
Excavation no.
Present location: Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima
Museum no.: SNM 9603 (old Karima Museum no. 64)

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: fragment of epitaph
Date: probably 700–999
Notes: S of Merowe
prayer in central part unidentifiable; 'God of the spirits' prayer runs around the stone

Material: marble
Object dimensions: H: 54; W: 49; Th: 10
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Object colour: white
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Lines: 5 + 3 (on border)
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Description: fragment of marble stela; main epigraphic field framed by wide raised border on which there are 3 lines of inscription ('God of the spirits' prayr); the whole text of the prayer must have run along 3 edges of the stela (left, upper, and right); lower part and lower border left uninscribed
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State of preservation: fragmentary; lower right corner with portions of lower and right margins

Date: probably 700–999
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Source: Tsakos 2009a, fig. 4
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Source: Crowfoot 1927, fig. 1
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Latest edition: Tsakos 2009a, pp. 224–5 (no. 5), fig. 4
Other editions: SB 4 7431; Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, p. 252; I. Nubia Tibiletti Bruno 36 bis

Other publications: Crowfoot 1927, no. 4, p. 230, fig. 1; Tibiletti Bruno 1963, passim; Žabkar 1967, p. 17; Roquet 1977, n. 5 on p. 173; Żurawski 1999a, p. 203, fig. 2 (wrongly identified as being from Dongola); Żurawski 2001b, p. 76, n. 6 (no. 8)

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TrismegistosTM text 369964

Provenance: Qasr Ibrim
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: burial 2, S of cathedral (church 293)
Excavation no.: QI.T/32
Present location: unknown
Museum no.

Medium: textile
Technique: painted
Type of text: name of divine entity/saint
Language: unidentified
Content: name of Mary, Mother of God
Date: 1000–1199
Notes

Material: linen
Object dimensions: not recorded
Text dimensions: not recorded
Object colour
Text colour: black
Lines: 1
Height of letters

Description: fragment of shroud (Tiraz) with 1 line of painted inscription; shroud was imported but inscription was produced locally
Decorative elements: shroud decorated with embroidered Arabic inscription
State of preservation: almost complete

Date: 1000–1199
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Source: Crowfoot (E.) 2011, pl. 3c
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Latest edition: unpublished; mentioned in Crowfoot (E.) 2011, pp. 16, 29, pl. 3c
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TrismegistosTM text 369965

Provenance: Qasr Ibrim
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: tomb T2 (296), south of cathedral (church 293)
Excavation no.: QI.T/148
Present location: unknown
Museum no.

Medium: textile
Technique: painted
Type of text: legend
Language: unidentified
Content: inscription accompanying paintings on textile, perhaps legends
Date: 900–1499
Notes: possibly Old Nubian

Material: flax
Object dimensions: H: 25; W: 39.4
Text dimensions: 1: H: 7; W: 7.8
2: H: 5.5; W: 12.5
Object colour
Text colour: black
Lines: 2
Height of letters

Description: small fragment of textile (labelled as 'flag' by excavators); 2 inscriptions placed below painting as if being legends to the depiction above
Decorative elements: unidentified paining in black and yellow
State of preservation: object fragmentary; inscripion incomplete (?)

Date: 900–1499
Chronological systems