TOURP/28

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1949:App. 20
Okasha/Forsyth/2001:Toureen Peacaun 58
Site:TOURP
Discovery:arch excav, 1878 Petrie, G.
History:Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 317: `In 1878 this stone was one of several fragments `heaped up in the north-west corner of the church' .. In 1909 Crawford expressed his doubt that this stone was to be identified with stone no 14 [TOURP/4]. It seems likely that Crawford was right and that the stone was already lost then'.
Geology:Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 322: `sandstone'.
Dimensions:0.155 x 0.155 x 0.0 (Okasha/Forsyth/2001)
Setting:Lost (present 1878, missing 1909)
Location:Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 317, shows that the stone was extant in 1878, but was lost by the time Crawford visited the site in 1909.
Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 317: `The stone is now lost'.
Form:other
Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 317: `The stone was a fragment of a slab of unknown form'.
Condition:frgmntry , n/a
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:

Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 317: `Petrie's drawinh shows no cross'.

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Inscriptions


TOURP/28/1

Readings

Okasha and Forsyth (2001):[--]F[I]TS[--]
Expansion:
[--]FITS[--
Okasha/Forsyth/2001 318 reading only

Notes

Orientation:Indeterminate
Position:n/a ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated
Incision:inc
Date:None published
Language:Indeterminate (rbook)
Ling. Notes:Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 318: `cannot now be interpreted'.
Palaeography:Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 317: `From Petrie's scale drawing of this stone, the text appears to have been in half-uncial script'.

CISP: To judge from the published drawing the T was curved with a flat top-stroke and the S was majuscule with a slant towards the right. The F had a curved top-stroke, like that found on a number of inscriptions from the site.

Legibility:poor
Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 317: `highly deteriorated'.
Lines:
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

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