Text 55
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations, cemetery 2, in situ in grave no. 3
- Excavation no.
- no. 3
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 11275
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- fragment of epitaph of Tirsakouni, monk
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 32; W: 31; Th: 2
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- grey-brown
- Text colour
- Lines
- 6 (7 reconstructed)
- Height of letters
- 3-4
- Description
- Lower half of a plaque, with only a small piece of the lower left corner broken off. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line, leaving margin of ca. 1.5 cm in width.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- incomplete; upper part completely destroyed and the uppermost surviving line heavily eroded
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- ⲫⲁⲙⲉ⸌ⲛ⸍ⲑ ⲕ̄︤ⲑ︥
- Transcription
- "Phamenoth 29" (l. 4)
- Months
- ⲫⲁⲙⲉ⸌ⲛ⸍ⲑ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- monk (ⲡⲙⲟ⸌ⲭ⸍): l. 3
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 77
- Other editions
- Shinnie – Chittick 1961, p. 86, no. 58, pl. 27a; I. Khartoum Copt. 67, pl. 40
- Other publications
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