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Provenance
Ghazali
Region
Makuria
Findspot
Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations:
(a): cemetery 2, unknown circumstances
(b): bottom of stair in south-western corner of northern church
Excavation no.
I 1
Present location
Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.
SNM 11591
Medium
stela
Technique
incised before firing
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Coptic
Content
fragment of epitaph of monk
Date
700–999
Notes
keleusis type
Material
terracotta
Object dimensions
H: 20; W: 20; Th: 2
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
pinkish
Text colour
 
Lines
9 (10 reconstructed)
Height of letters
1–1.5 (2.5–3 in l. 1)
Description
Upper right part of a plaque, put together of two pieces: (a) – central part of the upper margin near the left corner, (b) – upper right quarter. The epigraphic field framed by a double incised line, discontinued in the upper part of the right margin, leaving the outer margins of ca. 1 cm on the right and 2 cm on the top.
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
fragmentary; right upper corner preserved
Date
700–999
Chronological systems
Egyptian calendar
Dating formulae
ⲛ̄ⲥⲟⲩ [ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣]ⲉ ⲙ̄ⲡⲉⲃⲟⲧ ⲧⲱ[ⲃⲉ]
Transcription
"on the [...] of the month of Tybi" (ll. 5–7)
Months
ⲧⲱ[ⲃⲉ
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
father (= abbot?) ([ⲡ]ⲉⲓⲱⲧ): l. 4
senior monk (ⲡϩ︦ⲗ︦): l. 4
monk ([ⲡ]ⲙⲟⲛⲁⲭⲟⲥ): l. 5
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
I. Ghazali 49
Image
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Source
 
Image
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Latest edition
I. Ghazali 49
Other editions
Shinnie – Chittick 1961, p. 70, no. 1; I. Khartoum Copt. 74, pl. 45, lower
Other publications
Obłuski 2019, pp. 277, 289
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