Text 817
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations, surface find
- Excavation no.
- not registered
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 11734m
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing & painted
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- 'God of the spirits' type (?)
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 8; W: 7.5; Th: 2.5
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- brown; right outer side painted dark
- Text colour
- Lines
- 2
- Height of letters
- c. 1.5
- Description
- Lower right corner of a plaque. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line, double on the right, single at the bottom, leaving outer margins of 1 cm on the right and 2 cm at the bottom. A sign, probably a cross, incised in the right extremity of the bottom margin. Supposedly, two similar crosses were carved in the extreme left and in the centre of the margin. Traces of dark paint in the right part of the front surface.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- lower right corner with endings of lines (only few letters) and portions of right and lower margins; upper 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 13
- Other editions
- I. Khartoum Greek 38, pl. 37
- Other publications
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