Text 1424
- 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
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- white
- Text colour
- Lines
- 5 + 3 (on border)
- Height of letters
- 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
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; lower right corner with portions of lower and right margins
- Date
- probably 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- Tsakos 2009a, fig. 4
- Image
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- Source
- Crowfoot 1927, fig. 1
- Image
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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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