Text 580
- Provenance
- Derr
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- cemetery
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo
- Museum no.
- 13515
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Arabic
- Content
- epitaph of Abū al-Ḥusayn
- Date
- 27 June 1186 or 25 August 1186
- Notes
- Material
- marble
- Object dimensions
- H: 76; W: 79
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- 16
- Height of letters
- Description
- six pieces of marble round-topped altar slab; epigraphic field framed by raised border on all sides, also inscribed
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- incomplete; put together from six pieces
- Date
- 27 June 1186 or 25 August 1186
- Chronological systems
- day of the week
Era of the Saracens
Islamic calendar
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- "on Wednesday, [Rabia or Djumada] II 7, year five hundred eighty-two" (ll. 11–13)
- Months
- [ ] el-aher
- Weakdays
- Wednesday
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- commander of the faithful: ll. 9–10
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- Abd al-Hamid 2013, p. 122, no. 1 (= TEI 8136)
- Other editions
- RCEA 9 3406; Wiet 1939, p. 206 (no. 2347), pl. 35 (= TEI 8136)
- Other publications
- Flood 2001, p. 65, no. 11
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