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Text 4445
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Provenance
Tafa
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
cemetery
Excavation no.
Present location
Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo
Museum no.
12691
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Arabic
Content
epitaph of Fāṭima
Date
26 December 919
Notes
Material
sandstone
Object dimensions
H: 50; W: 31
Text dimensions
Object colour
not recorded
Text colour
Lines
11
Height of letters
Description
sandstone stela
Decorative elements
interlinear decoration in form of chevrons; six-pointed star at the end of line 7
State of preservation
complete
Date
26 December 919
Chronological systems
Era of the Saracens
day of the week
Islamic calendar
Dating formulae
Transcription
on Friday, on the last day of Rajab, in the year three hundred and seven (ll. 7–9)
Months
Rajab
Weakdays
Friday
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Wiet 1936b, p. 156 (no. 1544) (= TEI 18514)
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