Text 3122
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- room 6
- Excavation no.
- G.13.051
- Present location
- Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima
- Museum no.
- not registered
- Medium
- tablet
- Technique
- painted
- Type of text
- alphabet
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- Coptic alphabet
- Date
- 600–1099
- Notes
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 13.2; W: 16; Th: 2.4–2.6
- Text dimensions
- 1) H: 10; W: 8.5
2) H: ca. 6.5; W: 3.7 - Object colour
- core black, front red (slipped?), back red to grey
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 1) 6 vertical; 2) 3 vertical
- Height of letters
- Description
- terracotta tile with painted inscriptions on both sides: (1) Coptic alphabet in five columns with additional letters written without recognisible order below them; (2) beginning of alphabet in three vertical columns; text (2) written at angel of 25 degrees in respect to (1)
porous Nile clay with organic and mineral admixture (mica, quartzite) - Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- tile broken on all sides but re-used in this shape to write the inscription; inscription (1) complete but obliterated in central and lower part; inscription (2) apparently complete (unfinished?), but very obliterated and hardly legible
- Date
- 600–1099
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- Obłuski et alii 2017, fig. 12
- Image
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- Source
- photo M. Bogacki
- Image
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- Latest edition
- unpublished; mentioned in Obłuski et alii 2017, p. 388, fig. 12
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Ochała 2016a, p. 1280; Obłuski – Ochała 2016, p. 76; Obłuski 2018, p. 157, pl. 1; I. Ghazali, p. 42
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