Text 2249

Provenance
Ghazali
Region
Makuria
Findspot
Lepsius's expedition, findspot not recorded
Excavation no.
 
Present location
Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin (lost)
Museum no.
ÄM 1505
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Coptic
Content
epitaph of Michinkouda, monk
Date
700–999
Notes
keleusis type
Material
sandstone
Object dimensions
H: 42; W: not recorded
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
 
Lines
13
Height of letters
not recorded
Description
Complete slab with a slightly rounded (or damaged?) upper edge. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line, leaving margins of various size on each side. The upper margin very broad, left uninscribed.
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
complete; surface worn in the left-hand part causing some difficulties in reading; long vertical crack in the right-hand part of the stone affecting some letters in lines 1–7
Date
700–999
Chronological systems
Egyptian calendar
Dating formulae
ⲙ̄ⲡ̣ⲉⲃ̣ⲟⲧ ⲫⲁⲙ̣ⲉ ̣ ̣ϩⲱⲧⲡ
Transcription
"in the month of Phamenoth" (ll. 6–7)
Months
ⲫⲁⲙ̣ⲉ ̣ ̣ϩⲱⲧⲡ
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
brother (= monk) (ⲥⲟⲛ): l. 5
monk (ⲙⲟⲛⲁⲭⲟ̣ⲥ̣): l. 6
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
I. Ghazali 44
Image
Image not available
Source
Lepsius 1849–59, 6 (plates), 12, pl. 103, Gr. 49
Image
Image not available
Latest edition
I. Ghazali 44
Other editions
Revillout 1885, p. 33, no. 50; SB Kopt. 1 494
Other publications
Lepsius 1849–59: 5 (text), p. 292; 6 (plates), 12, pl. 103, 49; Erman 1899, p. 413 (description and German translation); DACL 4/1, col. 452 (French translation); Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, p. 255; Satzinger 2004, p. 539
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