DBMNT

Description: Complete rectangular slab. Only the lower right corner missing, but not affecting the text. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line, double on top, leaving narrow outer margins. The inscribed text occupies only three quarters of the epigraphic field, the lowermost quarter was uninscribed. The layout of the inscription is peculiar, organised around and inside a large incised cross of roughly equal bars. The outline of the cross is executed considerably deeper than the line delineating the epigraphic field. The first part of the text is arranged in four quarters around the cross, each quarter consisting of three lines, starting in the upper left corner and ending in the lower right (the death-name-date lemma). The text then continues inside the arms of the cross (prayer), first in the vertical bar, then in the horizontal one.
Decorative elements: large cross with even arms in the middle, prayer written within it, rest of inscription between arms
State of preservation: text complete, but lower right corner of stone chipped off; edges worn out; surface eroded

Latest edition: I. Ghazali 68
Other editions: Shinnie – Chittick 1961, p. 74, no. 14, pl. 26b; I. Khartoum Greek 44, pl. 43

Text 26