Text 821
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
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(a): Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations, cemetery 2, unknown circumstances
(b): Polish-Sudanese excavations, fill to the east of the northern church - Excavation no.
- (a): not registered
(b): G.13.009 - Present location
- (a): Sudan National Museum, Khartoum (b): Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima
- Museum no.
- (a): SNM 11273k (b): not registered
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- fragment of epitaph of Theognostos/Theognosta (?)
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- pronoia-type
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- (a): H: 7.5; W: 12; Th: 3.3
(b): H: 9.7; W: 13; Th: 3.7 - Text dimensions
- Object colour
- core black, front and side red; back greyish red
- Text colour
- Lines
- 2
- Height of letters
- 2.5
- Description
- Two apparently joining fragments of the upper left part of a plaque: (a) – upper left corner; (b) – central part of upper margin. The epigraphic field framed by a broad raised border, 2–3 cm wide.
Porous Nile clay with small organic and mineral admixture (mica, quartzite). - Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; fragment of uppermost right part
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 43
- Other editions
- Shinnie – Chittick 1961, p. 82, no. 42 (fragment [a]); I. Khartoum Greek 47, pl. 46 (fagment [a])
- Other publications
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