Text 816
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations, cemetery 2, unknown circumstances
- Excavation no.
- not registered
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 11273a
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- 'God of the spirits' type
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 20; W: 20; Th: 2.5
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- surface red-brown; core grey
- Text colour
- Lines
- 2 (4 reconstructed)
- Height of letters
- c. 2.0
- Description
- Fragment of the upper right-hand margin of a round-topped plaque. The epigraphic field framed by a raised border. The text is ruled with shallowly incised lines, forming the registers of ca. 4 cm in height. The surface above the first register uninscribed, but in the unpreserved part it probably housed the beginning of the text and perhaps some additional invocation (Alpha Omega, Jesus Christ, or the like).
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- upper right part (two pieces glued together) with endings of lines (few letters) and portion of right margin preserved; surface worn and damaged; lower part lost
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 9
- Other editions
- Shinnie – Chittick 1961, p. 79, no. 32; I. Khartoum Greek 37, pl. 36
- Other publications
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