Text 4441

Provenance
Tafa
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
cemetery
Excavation no.
 
Present location
Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo
Museum no.
12693
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Arabic
Content
epitaph of ... b. Bilāl, slave of Umayyā
Date
29 July 911
Notes
 
Material
sandstone
Object dimensions
H: 83; W: 38
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
not recorded
Text colour
 
Lines
13
Height of letters
 
Description
sandstone stela
Decorative elements
six-pointed star at the bottom of the text
State of preservation
complete, but damaged in some places
Date
29 July 911
Chronological systems
Islamic calendar
Era of the Saracens
day of the week
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
on Saturday, on Dhū al-Qa‘da 5, in the year two hundred ninety-eight (ll. 8–10)
Months
Dhū al-Qa‘da
Weakdays
Saturday
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. 129–30 (no. 1488) (= TEI 18436)
Other editions
 
Other publications
 
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