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- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- collected in 1979 by the Italian mission to Gebel Barkal; reportedly brought to light at Ghazali by a large flood passing through Wadi Abu Dom
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima
- Museum no.
- not registered
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek/Old Nubian
- Content
- epitaph of ---ilo, priest and archimandrite
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- last line in Old Nubian
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 40; W: 33; Th: 7
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- grey
- Text colour
- Lines
- 12
- Height of letters
- Description
- Lower part of a rectangular slab, with complete bottom margin and large fragments of the side ones. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line, crossing in corners, at the top and bottom.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- incomplete; upper part lacking
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- ⲉⲛ ⲙⲏⲛⲓ ⲉⲡⲓⲫⲓ ⲕ̄︤ⲉ̄︥
- Transcription
- "in the month of Epeiph, (day) 25" (l. 2)
- Months
- ⲉⲡⲓⲫⲓ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- priest (⳦): ll. 1, 12
archimandrite (ⲁⲣ[⸌ⲭ⸍]ⲙⲁⲛ⸌ⲇ⸍): l. 1
asti of Pidd (?) (ⲡⲓⲇⲇⲓⲛ ⲁⲥⲧⲏⲗ): l. 12 (Donadoni 1986: ⲡⲓⳝⳝⲓⲛ ⲁⲥⲧⲏⲗ; corr. Ochała 2016a)
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Pidd (?) (ⲡⲓⲇⲇⲓⲛ): l. 12 (Donadoni 1986: ⲡⲓⳝⳝⲓⲛ; corr. Ochała 2016a)
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 75
- Other editions
- Donadoni 1986, pp. 226–227, fig. 3
- Other publications
- Łajtar 1992a, p. 121, no. 10; Tsakos 2009a, pp. 220–221, no. 3, fig. 2; Ochała 2016a, p. 1281 with n. 42; Obłuski 2019, pp. 284, 290
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