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4440
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Text 4440
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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
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slave (فتى): l. 5
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Latest edition
Wiet 1936b, pp. 103–4 (no. 1429) (= TEI 18393)
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