DBMNT

Provenance: Ghazali
Region: Makuria
Findspot: (a), (d), (e): Polish-Sudanese excavations:
(a): surface find
(d): room 84, surface
(e): room 84, floor level

(b)–(c): Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations, cemetery 2, unknown circumstances
Excavation no.: (a): Gh.2014.1.005
(b): I 17
(c): not registerd
(d): Gh.2015.1.002
(e): Gh.2015.1.003
Present location: (a), (d)+(e): Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima (b)+(c): Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.: (a), (d)+(e): not registered (b): SNM 11607 (c): SNM 11624e

Material: terracotta
Object dimensions: (a)+(c): H: 16; W: 12; Th: 2.3
(b): H: 13; W: 14; Th: 2.5
(d)+(e): H: 11.3; W: 9.2; Th: 2.6
reconstructed: H: 36; W: ca. 40; Th: 2.3–2.6
Text dimensions
Object colour: surface brown; core grey/black
Text colour
Lines: 8 (10 reconstructed)
Height of letters: 1.2–2 (ⲫ in l. 10: 2.7)

Description: Five fragments, two joining, of the central and right parts of a plaque. Fragments (b) and (d)+(e): central part with no margins; fragments (a)+(c): right margin with endings of five lines. The epigraphic field framed by incised line, leaving uninscribed margin of ca. 1.7 cm, preserved on the right. The text was ruled with incised lines, which are particularly deeply carved in fragment (d)+(e) (ca. 0.5 cm deep). The registers thus formed measure between 2.5 and 3.3 cm in height.
Decorative elements
State of preservation: fragmentary; put together of five pieces

Latest edition: I. Ghazali 4
Other editions: Shinnie – Chittick 1961, p. 75, no. 17 (fragm. [b]); p. 91, no. 72 (fragm. [c]); I. Khartoum Greek 35, pl. 34 (fragm. [b]); 36, pl. 35 (fragm. [c])

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