Text 846
- Provenance
- Khor Dam el-Tor
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- not recorded
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- A: SNM 9503 b; B: SNM 9503 Q+X+MM+I (?)+BB+J
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- 900–1099
- Notes
- near Bageri
perhaps νεύσει καὶ βουλήσει/κελεύσει type
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- A: H: 20; W: 10.5; Th: 1.6-2.0 (w/border 3);
B: H: 31.5; W: 14; Th: 3 - Text dimensions
- Object colour
- surface light brown; core grey to black; traces of white lime mortar
- Text colour
- Lines
- 13
- Height of letters
- 1.5 (bottom) – 3.5 (top)
- Description
- fragment of rectangular stela or plaque; epigraphic field framed by raised border on the right (W: 2.0–2.3) with incised line in the middle, which also runs on the flat bottom margin; ruling unevenly spaced (H register: 4.5 [ⲧ] – 2.5 [ⲃ])
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- glued from 7 fragments; left-hand part with left margin and lower left corner; only few first letters of lines; upper and right parts lost
- Date
- 900–1099
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Khartoum Greek 74, pl. 72
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Tsakos 2010a, p. 688 (no. 23)
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