DBMNT

Provenance: Ghazali
Region: Makuria
Findspot: (a): found in 1956 outside monastery, behind southern enclosure wall
(b): Polish-Sudanese excavations, room 77–80, upper level; found together with DBMNT 4209
Excavation no.: (a): not registered
(b): Gh.2015.2.045
Present location: (a): Sudan National Museum, Khartoum (b): Gebel Barkal Museum, Karima
Museum no.: (a): SNM 11783 (b): not registered

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: (a): H: 24; W: 19; Th: 8
(b): H: 23; W: 16; Th: 6.7
Total: H: 24; W: c. 37; Th: 6.7–8
Text dimensions
Object colour: reddish grey
Text colour
Lines: 7
Height of letters: 1.5–2.5 (ϯ in l. 2: 3.5)

Description: Two joining parts of the lower part of a slab with almost complete lower margin and a fragment of left margin preserved; a tiny fragment of the lower right corner of the epigraphic filed visible at the end of line 7, but the original right edge of the stone missing. The epigraphic field framed by a raised border, leaving the margin of 3.2–3.5 cm. Two big cuts in the lower margin. The back of the slab left unworked.
Decorative elements
State of preservation: incomplete; upper part lacking

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