Text 913

Provenance
Ghazali
Region
Makuria
Findspot
(a): Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations, findspot not recorded (surface?)
(b): Polish-Sudanese excavations, fill above south church
Excavation no.
(a): not registered
(b): G.13.004
Present location
(a): Sudan National Museum, Khartoum (b): Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima
Museum no.
(a): SNM 11624d (b): not registered
Medium
stela
Technique
incised before firing
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Coptic
Content
fragment of epitaph of unidentified monk (?)
Date
700–999
Notes
probably pronoia or keleusis type
Material
terracotta
Object dimensions
(a): H: 16.5; W: 19.5; Th.: 3
(b): H: 11.2; W: 13.6; Th: 3
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
core black, front red, back, reddish grey
Text colour
 
Lines
7 (8 reconstructed)
Height of letters
1–1.2 (ϩ: 2.2)
Description
Two non-joining fragments of apparently the same plaque. Original edges have not been preserved, but on the right side of fragment (b), a shallowly incised line is discernible, most probably marking the epigraphic field; the width of the right margin is more than 2 cm. Inscription shallowly incised probably after firing.

Porous Nile clay with considerable organic and mineral admixture (mica, quartzite, limestone?).
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
fragmentary; fragment of right margin preserved
Date
700–999
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Transcription
 
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Weakdays
 
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Offices & titles
brother (= monk) ([ⲥⲟⲛ]): l. 8
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
I. Ghazali 67
Image
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Latest edition
I. Ghazali 67
Other editions
Shinnie - Chittick 1961, p. 91, no. 71 (fragment [a]); I. Khartoum Copt. 92, pl. 57, lower (fragment [a])
Other publications
 
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