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- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations, cemetery 2, unknown circumstances
- Excavation no.
- not registered
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 11273j
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing & painted
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 14; W: 7; Th: 2.5
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- surface red
- Text colour
- lines painted white (ll. 2 and 4) and red (l. 3) alternately
- Lines
- 4
- Height of letters
- c. 2
- Description
- Fragment of the central part of plaque, without margins. Traces of white (ll. 2 and 4) and red (l. 3) paint in letters; apparently the lines were painted alternately.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; broken on all sides
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 96
- Other editions
- Shinnie - Chittick 1961, p. 82, no. 41; I. Khartoum Copt. 58, pl. 34, lower
- Other publications
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