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Text 573
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Trismegistos
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text 141622
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Provenance
Derr
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
cemetery
Excavation no.
Present location
Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo
Museum no.
13513
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Arabic
Content
epitaph of Fāṭima
Date
26 October 1027
Notes
all elements of date coincide
Material
marble
Object dimensions
H: 86; W: 85
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines
14
Height of letters
Description
round-topped altar slab; epigraphic field framed by raised border on all sides (with small brake in lower margin), also inscribed
Decorative elements
State of preservation
complete, but broken vertically into two
Date
26 October 1027
Chronological systems
day of the week
Era of the Saracens
Islamic calendar
Dating formulae
Transcription
"on the night of Thursday, when eight days remained of the month of Ramaḍān (= 22 Ramaḍān), year four hundred eighteen" (ll. 12–14)
Months
Ramaḍān
Weakdays
Thursday
Feasts
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Offices & titles
Toponyms & ethnonyms
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Source
Wiet 1939, pl. 16
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Latest edition
Wiet 1939, p. 85 (no. 2165), pl. 16 (= TEI 6361)
Other editions
RCEA 6 2358
Other publications
Strzygowski 1930, p. 279, fig. 264; Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, p. 101; 2, pl. 48 (upper right?); Monneret de Villard 1938, p. 118; Miles 1941, p. 106; Flood 2001, p. 64, no. 3; CSCN, p. 169, table 25 on p. 171
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