DBMNT

Provenance: Ghazali
Region: Makuria
Findspot: Lepsius's expedition, findspot not recorded
Excavation no.
Present location: (a): Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin (lost) (b): Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, Berlin (previously Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin)
Museum no.: (a): ÄM 1495 (b): 9996 (old no. ÄM 1503)

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Coptic
Content: fragment of epitaph of unidentified man
Date: 700–999
Notes: Junker (followed by SB Kopt. and other publications) read the first 3 signs of l. 1 ⲯⲓⲉ and proposed to interpret them as numeral designating a date according to the Era of Diocletian/Martyrs (AM 715 = AD 998/9); more probable, however, is to read ⲯⲓⲥ, that is Coptic numeral 'nine' (or 'nineteen' or 'twenty-nine')

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: (a): not recorded
(b): H: 29.5; W: 22.5; Th: c. 6
Estimated total dimensions: H: 32.5; W: 38
Text dimensions
Object colour: grey
Text colour
Lines: 9
Height of letters: c. 2 (3.5 in l. 9)

Description: Two joining pieces forming the lower part of a rectangular slab, with complete bottom margin and the lowermost part of both side margins preserved. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line, leaving quite broad uninscribed margin (3 cm on the right, 4.5 cm at the bottom).
Decorative elements
State of preservation: incomplete; upper part completely destroyed; surface heavily damaged in the central part

Dating formulae: [---]ⲯⲓⲥ ⲙⲡⲉⲃⲟⲧ [---]
Transcription: "[on the] ninth (or nineteen or twenty nine) of the month of [---]" (l. 1)
Months
Weakdays
Feasts

Other publications: Lepsius 1849–59: 5 (text), p. 292; 6 (plates), 12, pl. 103, 43; Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, p. 255

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