Text 513
- Provenance
- Komangana
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- cemetery 178; reused to block entrance to tomb 16, inscribed surface turned inwards and upside down
- Excavation no.
- 178/16:2
- Present location
- unknown
- Museum no.
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Arabic
- Content
- epitaph of Maḥmūda
- Date
- 27 August 998
- Notes
- near Debeira (labelled 'Qoddi' in TEI)
all elements of date agree
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 48.5; W: 25
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- brown
- Text colour
- Lines
- 13
- Height of letters
- Description
- rectangular slab; epigraphic field framed by raised border
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- lower left corner broken off
- Date
- 27 August 998
- Chronological systems
- day of the week
Era of the Saracens
Islamic calendar
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- "on Saturday, on the first day of (the month of) Ṣafar, year three hundred eighty-eight" (ll. 9–13)
- Months
- Ṣafar
- Weakdays
- Saturday
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- Säve-Söderbergh 1982, pl. 107, 2
- Image
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- Source
- Säve-Söderbergh 1982, fig. on p. 53
- Image
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- Latest edition
- Säve-Söderbergh 1981, pp. 53–4, fig. on p. 53, pls. 46, 107.2 (= TEI 26098)
- Other editions
- Holthoer – Salonen – Ziliacus 1964, pp. 10–11
- Other publications
- Säve-Söderbergh 1964, p. 39, pl. 7 (right); Säve-Söderbergh 1970, p. 238; Säve-Söderbergh – Englund – Nordström 1981, p. 135; CSCN, table 25 on p. 171
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