DBMNT

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)

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

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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