Text 51
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations, two fragments in packing in front of main entrance; one fragment in cemetery 2 in unknown circumstances
- Excavation no.
- not registered
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 11268 and 11613
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- fragment of epitaph of Balo, monk
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 39.5; W: 27.5; Th: 10
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- brown
- Text colour
- Lines
- 12
- Height of letters
- 2-3
- Description
- Three joining pieces from the lower part of a sandstone slab, with a large fragment of the right margin, small fragment of the left one, and traces of the lower right corner. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line, leaving the outer margins of ca. 1 cm on the left and 1.5 cm on the right. The borderline must have been incised after the execution of the text, because it is interrupted at the height of line 6 in order not to damage its final letter.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; put together from three peices; part of left side and small piece from centre preserved
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- [ ̣ ̣ ⲙⲡⲉⲃ]ⲟ̣ⲧ ⲡⲁⲩ̈ⲛⲓ
[… ⲙ]ⲡ̣ⲁⲩ̈ⲛⲓ - Transcription
- "[on day ... of the] month of Payni" (l. 2) "Payni" (l. 12)
- Months
- ⲡⲁⲩ̈ⲛⲓ
ⲡ̣ⲁⲩ̈ⲛⲓ - Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- brother (= monk) ([ⲡⲉⲛⲥⲟ]ⲛ): l. 3
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 143
- Other editions
- Shinnie – Chittick 1961, p. 77, no. 24 (cf. p. 84, no. 52); I. Khartoum Copt. 46, pl. 28
- Other publications
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