DBMNT

Provenance: Khor Dam el-Tor
Region: Makuria
Findspot: not recorded
Excavation no.
Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.: A: SNM 9503 R + 9503 U B: SNM 9503 E C: SNM 9503 V + 4592 + 9503 D: SNM 9503 c + 9503 L + 9503 S

Medium: stela
Technique: incised before firing
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: fragment of epitaph of unidentified woman
Date: 900–1099
Notes: near Bageri
probably νεύσει καὶ βουλήσει/κελεύσει type
I. Khartoum Greek 76 (DBMNT 847) comes possibly from the same object; Barns connected fr. C and D

Material: terracotta
Object dimensions: A: H: 10; W: 15; Th: 2.9;
B: H: 5.3; W: 6.2; Th: 2.6;
C: H: 17.5; W: 14.5; Th: 2.9;
D: H: 16; W: 15; Th: 2.7
Text dimensions
Object colour: surface brown; core black
Text colour
Lines: A: 2; B: 1; C: 4; D: 5
Height of letters: 1.3-5.7

Description: 4 non-joining fragments (glued together from smaller pieces) of originally rectangular plaque with slightly rounded edges (A: upper right corner; B: small fragment from left edge; C: large fragment from right side with right edge; D: lower left corner); epigraphic field framed by double incised line (on distance 1.3–1.5; outer flat margin W: 1.2–2.0);
Decorative elements
State of preservation: fragments com from different parts of stela; A: endings of 2 lines with portion of upper and right margins; B: traces of the first letter in central part of stela; C: endings of lines with portion of right margin; D: beginnings of lowermost lines with portion of left and lower margins

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