Text 57
- Provenance
- Ghazali
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
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Shinnie and Chittick’s excavations:
(a): cemetery 2, unknown circumstances
(b): bottom of stair in south-western corner of northern church - Excavation no.
- I 1
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 11591
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised before firing
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- fragment of epitaph of monk
- Date
- 700–999
- Notes
- keleusis type
- Material
- terracotta
- Object dimensions
- H: 20; W: 20; Th: 2
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- pinkish
- Text colour
- Lines
- 9 (10 reconstructed)
- Height of letters
- 1–1.5 (2.5–3 in l. 1)
- Description
- Upper right part of a plaque, put together of two pieces: (a) – central part of the upper margin near the left corner, (b) – upper right quarter. The epigraphic field framed by a double incised line, discontinued in the upper part of the right margin, leaving the outer margins of ca. 1 cm on the right and 2 cm on the top.
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; right upper corner preserved
- Date
- 700–999
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- ⲛ̄ⲥⲟⲩ [ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣]ⲉ ⲙ̄ⲡⲉⲃⲟⲧ ⲧⲱ[ⲃⲉ]
- Transcription
- "on the [...] of the month of Tybi" (ll. 5–7)
- Months
- ⲧⲱ[ⲃⲉ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- father (= abbot?) ([ⲡ]ⲉⲓⲱⲧ): l. 4
senior monk (ⲡϩ︦ⲗ︦): l. 4
monk ([ⲡ]ⲙⲟⲛⲁⲭⲟⲥ): l. 5
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- I. Ghazali 49
- Other editions
- Shinnie – Chittick 1961, p. 70, no. 1; I. Khartoum Copt. 74, pl. 45, lower
- Other publications
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