Text 863
- Provenance
- Mushu (Mesho)
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- perhaps near well, E of modern Muslim tombs
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Nyala Museum
- Museum no.
- provisional museum no. M.1
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised & painted
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- fragment of epitaph of unidentified man
- Date
- 800–999
- Notes
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 11.5; W: 16; Th: 3.8
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- pinkish
- Text colour
- traces of paint
- Lines
- 4
- Height of letters
- 1.5-2.0
- Description
- fragment of stela (probably round-topped); epigraphic field framed by raised border (W: c. 3.0)
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragment of left-hand side with beginnings of lines and portion of left margin; upper and lower part lost
- Date
- 800–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Khartoum Copt. 29, pl. 21
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Tsakos 2010a, p. 684 (no. 9)
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