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- Provenance
- Tafa
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- cemetery
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Nubia Museum, Aswan (formerly Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo)
- Museum no.
- 12695
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Arabic
- Content
- epitaph of 'Abd al-Raḥmān
- Date
- 24 May 1125
- Notes
- 24 May fell on Sunday
in Wiet 1939, different reading of the name of the deceased: ‘Ubayd b. Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad etc.
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 60; W: 37
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- grey
- Text colour
- Lines
- 11
- Height of letters
- Description
- rectangular sandstone stela; epigraphic field framed by raised border
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete, apart from chipped off lower corners
- Date
- 24 May 1125
- Chronological systems
- Era of the Saracens
day of the week
Islamic calendar
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- "on Thursday, eighteen of (the month of) Rabī‘ II, year five hundred nineteen" (ll. 8–10)
- Months
- Rabī‘ II
- Weakdays
- Thursday
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- Wiet 1939, p. 187 (no. 2325), pl. 34 (= TEI 7693)
- Other editions
- RCEA 8 3015
- Other publications
- Monneret de Villard 1938, p. 118, n. 3; CSCN, p. 168, table 25 on p. 171
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