Text 853
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
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(a): Polish-Sudanese excavations, cemetery 2, in layer of broken mudbricks covering the superstructure of a secondary (monastic) burial, dug into the earlier tomb Ghz-2-004
(b): unknown - Excavation no.
- (a): Gh.2015.2.017A
(b): not registered - Present location
- (a): Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima (b): Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- (a): not registered (b): SNM 32115
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- fragment of epitaph of Abraam, monk
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- The provenance of fragment (b) was not recorded in the SNM register, but since it matches fragment (a), it must come from Ghazali. The circumstances of its discovery remain unknown, however.
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- (a): H: 13.8; W: 18; Th: 2.1–2.8
(b): H: 12; W: 13; Th: 2.5
Total dimensions: H: 17.5; W: 27; Th: 2.1–2.8 - Text dimensions
- Object colour
- core black, front red (margin) to grey (centre), back red
- Text colour
- Lines
- 6
- Height of letters
- 2–2.3
- Description
- Two joining fragments of the central part of a plaque: (a) – right margin; (b) – left margin. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line, leaving margin of 1.5 cm on the left and 1.6–2 cm on the right.
Porous Nile clay with organic and mineral admixture (mica, quartzite). - Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; central part of stela with remains of six lines
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- brother (= monk) ([ⲁ]ⲇⲉⲗⲫⲟⲥ): l. 2
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 149
- Other editions
- I. Khartoum Greek 83, pl. 80
- Other publications
- Tsakos 2009b, pp. 202–3, no. 7; Tsakos 2010a, p. 670, no. 27
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