Text 59
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations, passage outside western wall of northern church
- Excavation no.
- not registered
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 11594
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- epitaph of Petros
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 36; W: 23; Th: 6-14
- Text dimensions
- H: 32; W: 21
- Object colour
- grey-brown
- Text colour
- Lines
- 14
- Height of letters
- c. 1.5
- Description
- Nearly complete rectangular slab, with only lower right corner broken off, but causing no damage to the text.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- text complete; right lower corner missing
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- ⲛⲥⲟⲩ ϫⲟⲩⲧⲥⲛⲟⲟⲩⲥ ⲙ̄ⲡⲉⲃⲟⲧ ⲡⲁⲣⲉⲙ̣ϩⲱⲧ︤ⲡ︥
- Transcription
- "on day twenty-two of the month of Phamenoth" (ll. 11–14)
- Months
- ⲡⲁⲣⲉⲙ̣ϩⲱⲧ︤ⲡ︥
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 16
- Other editions
- Shinnie – Chittick 1961, p. 71, no. 4, pl. 26a; Kosack 1974, p. 326, no. 101; I. Khartoum Copt. 77, pl. 48
- Other publications
- Žabkar 1967, p. 18, n. 36 (on ll. 1–9, with transcription and translation into Greek); Roquet 1977, p. 166 (quoting ll. 1–2)
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