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Provenance: Dongola
Region: Makuria
Findspot: citadel, church of Archangel Raphael (B.V), late altar by north wall of prothesis
Excavation no.
Present location: Dongola, storeroom of the Polish mission (?)
Museum no.

Medium: icon
Technique: painted
Type of text: dedicatory inscription
Language: Greek
Content: dedication of icon with representation of Mary donated by Proimos, joknashil
Date: 1200–1399
Notes

Material: wood
Object dimensions: H and W not mentioned; Th: 0.8
reconstructed: H: 50; W: 24
Text dimensions: H: 3; W: 11.5
Object colour
Text colour: black
Lines: 4
Height of letters: 0.3–0.6

Description: three connecting pieces of a icon made of palm wood forming its lower corner; fragment of painted representation of enthroned Mary preserved on one side with inscription of four lines painted between the legs of the throne; on the other side two standing figures, perhaps a protection scene with the donor of the icon
Decorative elements
State of preservation: object fragmentary, only lower corner preserved, assembled from three pieces; inscription complete apart from a small lacuna at the end of line 2

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