Text 53
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations, cemetery 2, unknown circumstances
- Excavation no.
- not registered
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 11273d
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- fragment of epitaph
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 11; W: 10; Th: 2.5
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- red
- Text colour
- Lines
- 4
- Height of letters
- c. 2–3
- Description
- Fragment of the right margin of a plaque. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line, leaving the margin of ca. 1 cm in width.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; part right margin preserved
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- [--- ⲥⲟⲩ]ⲙ̣ⲛⲧ[--- ⲙⲡⲉ]ⲃⲟⲧ ⲉ[---]
- Transcription
- "on the [---]teenth of the month of Epeiph" (ll. 2–4)
- Months
- ⲉ[---
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 92
- Other editions
- Shinnie – Chittick 1961, p. 80, no. 35; I. Khartoum Copt. 53, pl. 32, upper
- Other publications
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