Text 4440

Provenance
Tafa
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
cemetery
Excavation no.
 
Present location
Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo
Museum no.
12720
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Arabic
Content
epitaph of Ziyād, slave of Ibrahīm
Date
20 August 904
Notes
 
Material
sandstone
Object dimensions
H: 74; W: 42
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
not recorded
Text colour
 
Lines
10
Height of letters
 
Description
sandstone stela
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
complete
Date
20 August 904
Chronological systems
Islamic calendar
Era of the Saracens
day of the week
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
on Monday, on Shawwāl 5, in the year two hundred ninety-one (ll. 8–10)
Months
Shawwāl
Weakdays
Monday
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
slave (فتى): l. 5
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
 
Image
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Source
 
Image
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Latest edition
Wiet 1936b, pp. 103–4 (no. 1429) (= TEI 18393)
Other editions
 
Other publications
 
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