Text 865
- Provenance
- Mushu (Mesho)
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- perhaps near well, E of modern Muslim tombs
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- provisional museum no. M.3
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Greek/Coptic
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- 800–999
- Notes
- l. 2 in Greek
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 8; W: 13.5; Th: 2 (w/border)
- Text dimensions
- H: 8; W: 13
- Object colour
- red
- Text colour
- Lines
- 3
- Height of letters
- 1.0-2.0
- Description
- fragment of round-topped stela; epigraphic field framed by raised decorated border
- Decorative elements
- incised decorations on raised border: cross surrounded by decorative lettering
- State of preservation
- small fragment from the upper part of inscription with upper margin; 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. 31, pl. 22
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Tsakos 2010a, p. 684 (no. 9); Tsakos 2015, p. 247
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