Text 887
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations, cemetery 2, perhaps near grave no. 3
- Excavation no.
- not registered
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 11273i
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- pronoia or keleusis type
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 15; W: 7; Th: 2
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- red
- Text colour
- traces of paint
- Lines
- 3
- Height of letters
- c. 2
- Description
- Fragment of the left margin of a plaque. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line, leaving margin of ca. 2.5–3 cm in width.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; fragment of left margin with beginnings of three lines
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 66
- Other editions
- Shinnie - Chittick 1961, p. 81, no. 40; I. Khartoum Copt. 57, pl. 34, upper
- Other publications
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