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Provenance
Tafa
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
cemetery
Excavation no.
 
Present location
Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo
Museum no.
12703
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Arabic
Content
epitaph of 'Ā'isha
Date
7 March 1096
Notes
RCEA VIII 2862 – 6 March
Material
sandstone
Object dimensions
H: 73; W: 26
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
 
Lines
15
Height of letters
 
Description
sandstone stela
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
complete
Date
7 March 1096
Chronological systems
day of the week
Era of the Saracens
Islamic calendar
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
"on Friday, when eight nights passed of the month of Rabī‘ I of the year four hundred eighty-nine" (ll. 11–13)
Months
Rabī‘ I
Weakdays
Friday
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
 
Image
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Latest edition
Wiet 1939, p. 173 (no. 2309) (= TEI 6995)
Other editions
RCEA 8 2862
Other publications
Monneret de Villard 1938, p. 118, n. 3; CSCN, p. 168, table 24 on p. 170, table 25 on p. 171
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