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Text 579
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text 141628
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Provenance
Derr
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
cemetery
Excavation no.
Present location
Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo
Museum no.
13514
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Arabic
Content
epitaph of Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad
Date
22 December 1137
Notes
22 December fell on Wednesday
the only Arabic stela from Nubia with length of life
Material
marble
Object dimensions
H: 76; W: 62
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines
15
Height of letters
Description
round-topped altar slab; epigraphic field framed by raised border on all sides, also inscribed
Decorative elements
State of preservation
complete, but broken vertically into two fragments; minor lacunae in middle of inscription
Date
22 December 1137
Chronological systems
day of the week
Era of the Saracens
Islamic calendar
Dating formulae
Transcription
"on Tuesday, six of the month of Rabī‘ II of the year five hundred thirty-two" (ll. 10–11)
Months
Rabī‘ II
Weakdays
Tuesday
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Source
Wiet 1939, pl. 35
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Latest edition
Wiet 1939, p. 190 (no. 2329), pl. 35 (= TEI 7773)
Other editions
RCEA 8 3088
Other publications
Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, p. 101; 2, pl. 48 (upper left); Monneret de Villard 1938, p. 118; Flood 2001, p. 64, no. 6, fig. 11; CSCN, p. 168, table 25 on p. 171
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