Text 840
- Provenance
- el-Koro
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- not recorded
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 9504 H
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- probably 700–999
- Notes
- S of Abu Hamed
Barns notes that I. Khartoum Greek 64 (DBMNT 836) is also from the same object
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 11; W: 12.5; Th: 3.7
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- surface red-brown; core grey-black
- Text colour
- Lines
- 5
- Height of letters
- 0.9-2.3
- Description
- fragment of stela or plaque; epigraphic field framed by deeply incised line, leaving narrow flat outer margin; letters become smaller at the bottom
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- lower right corner with endings of lines and portions of lower and right margins; upper part lost
- Date
- probably 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Khartoum Greek 68, pl. 66
- Other editions
- Macadam 1953, p. 44 (no. 3), fig. 12.3, pl. 28b, fig. 12.3
- Other publications
- Barns 1954, p. 28; Žabkar 1967, p. 17; Tsakos 2010a, p. 687 (no. 22)
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