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Text 578
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text 141627
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Provenance
Tafa
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
cemetery
Excavation no.
Present location
Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo
Museum no.
12697
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Arabic
Content
epitaph of Maymūna
Date
1 February 1131
Notes
1 February fell on Sunday
Material
sandstone
Object dimensions
H: 64; W: 34
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines
12
Height of letters
Description
roughly rectangular sandstone stela, with diagonal lower edge; epigraphic field framed by raised border
Decorative elements
State of preservation
complete, but broken into two roughly even pieces
Date
1 February 1131
Chronological systems
day of the week
Era of the Saracens
Islamic calendar
Dating formulae
Transcription
"on Friday, on the first 'lunation' of (the month of) Rabī‘ I, year five hundred twenty-five" (ll. 10–12)
Months
Rabī‘ I
Weakdays
Friday
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Offices & titles
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Source
Wiet 1939, pl. 34
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Image
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Latest edition
Wiet 1939, p. 188 (no. 2327), pl. 34 (= TEI 7720)
Other editions
RCEA 8 3040
Other publications
Monneret de Villard 1938, p. 118, n. 3; CSCN, p. 168, table 25 on p. 171
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