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- Date of production 9th/10th century
- Place of creation Lower Nubia (the area known as Egypt today)
- Place of discovery Ginari Tafah (the cemetery is now located under the waters of Lake Nasser)
- Dimensions height: 22 cm, width: 23.5 cm, thickness: 7 cm
- ID no. MAK/AS/1632
- Museum Archaeological Museum in Kraków
- Subjects religion, sculpted, excavated from the earth, death
- Technique engraving
- Material sandstone
- Object copyright Archaeological Museum in Kraków
- Digital images copyright public domain
- Digitalisation RDW MIC, Małopolska's Virtual Museums project
- Tags excavations , grave , death , sculpture , Christianity , archeology , 3D , necropolis , 3D plus , public domain , stela
The stele comes from the Christian necropolis in Lower Nubia (present day Egypt). It is one of the three stelae from that region presented on our website and one of seven stelae stored in Poland. The inscription placed on the stele is written in the Old Nubian language, which is indicated, for example, by the use of colons for dividing numbers.
moreThe stele comes from the Christian necropolis in Lower Nubia (present day Egypt). It is one of the three stelae from that region presented on our website and one of seven stelae stored in Poland. The inscription placed on the stele is written in the Old Nubian language, which is indicated, for example, by the use of colons for dividing numbers. Such a form of transcription was used in Nubia in the 10th–12th century, mainly in inscriptions of a religious nature. The Old Nubian language was known in written form from as late as the 8th century.
Elaborated by Krzysztof Babraj (Archaeological Museum in Kraków), © all rights reserved
See also other steles from Ginari Tafah in our collection:
Tomb stele from Ginari Tafah
Tomb stele from Ginari Tafah 3
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