Text 834
- Provenance
- el-Koro
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- ruins of church
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 7842
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- fragment of epitaph of Solomon, a priest
- Date
- probably 700–999
- Notes
- S of Abu Hamed
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 28; W: 37; Th: 3.5
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- surface red-brown; core black; epigraphic field white washed
- Text colour
- Lines
- 13
- Height of letters
- 1.1-1.3
- Description
- fragment of oval or round-topped plaque; epigraphic field framed by raised border (W: 1.2), leaving broad flat outer margin
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- middle part of the stela glued of three fragments with portions of side margins; small upper fragment and lower part lost
- Date
- probably 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- priest (⳦): l. 5
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Khartoum Greek 61, pl. 59
- Other editions
- Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, p. 263
- Other publications
- Žabkar 1967, p. 17; Tsakos 2010a, p. 687 (no. 22)
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