Text 2496

Provenance
Ghazali
Region
Makuria
Findspot
outside north wall of north church
Excavation no.
 
Present location
Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.
SNM 11668
Medium
pottery
Technique
incised before firing
Type of text
unidentified
Language
unidentified
Content
unidentified text mentioning Ioannes or Ionas, priest and archimandrite
Date
600–1299
Notes
 
Material
ceramic
Object dimensions
H: 10.5; W: 50
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
not recorded
Text colour
 
Lines
1
Height of letters
 
Description
fragment of terracotta container with flat base and circular depression in centre; inscription incised on rim before firing
Decorative elements
inner walls decorated with incised human heads
State of preservation
vessel fragmentary; inscription fragmentary
Date
600–1299
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
priest (⳦): l. 1 (reading from photo G. Ochala)
archimandrite (ⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍): l. 1 (reading from photo G. Ochała)
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
Tsakos 2006, fig. 3
Image
Image not available
Source
 
Image
Image not available
Latest edition
unpublished; mentioned in Shinnie – Chittick 1961, p. 28, pl. 12a–b
Other editions
 
Other publications
Tsakos 2006, p. 115, fig. 3
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