Text 56
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations, findspot not recorded
- Excavation no.
- not registered
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 11281
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- epitaph of apa Markos, monk
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- will/wish type
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 26; W: 21; Th: 10
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- white
- Text colour
- Lines
- 9
- Height of letters
- 1.5–2
- Description
- Upper right part of a slab with the left margin missing along with 2–4 letters at the beginning of the lines. Lower part broken off. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line, leaving margin of 2–2.5 cm in width.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- right upper corner preserved; surface heavily worn and damaged in places.
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- ⲛ̄ⲥⲟ⸌ⲩ⸍ [ϫⲟⲩ]ⲱⲧ ⲙ̣ⲡⲁ[ ̣ ̣ ̣]
- Transcription
- "on day twenty of (the month of) Pa[...] (Pachon, Payni, Phaophi)" (ll. 5–6)
- Months
- ⲡⲁ[---
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- apa (ⲁ̣ⲡ̣ⲁ): l. 4
monk ([ⲡⲙⲟ]ⲛ̣ⲁⲭⲟⲥ): l. 5
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 58
- Other editions
- Shinnie – Chittick 1961, p. 88, no. 63; I. Khartoum Copt. 72, pl. 43, upper
- Other publications
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