Text 598
- Provenance
- Meinarti
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- church, reused in foundation
- Excavation no.
- 6-K-3/625
- Present location
- Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
- Museum no.
- SNM 18100
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Arabic
- Content
- epitaph of Raḥīma
- Date
- 12 November 1063
- Notes
- the same hand as in DBMNT 511
12 November fell on Wednesday
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- not recorded
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- 12
- Height of letters
- Description
- roughly trapezoid block, narrowing towards top; epigraphic field framed by raised border
- Decorative elements
- crudely incised David star flanked by two pentagrams in upper part above text
- State of preservation
- completely preserved
- Date
- 12 November 1063
- Chronological systems
- day of the week
Era of the Saracens
Islamic calendar
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- "on Monday, when thirteen (nights) remained of (the month of) Dhū al-Qa‘da (= 18 Dhū al-Qa‘da), year five and fifty and four hundred" (ll. 8–11)
- Months
- Dhū al-Qa‘da
- Weakdays
- Monday
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- Browne 2006b, pp. 30–31, fig. 2 (= TEI 41058)
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Adams 2001, p. 100; Adams 2002, p. 79–80 (translation), pl. 20d (2); Adams 2003, p. 73, pls. 6f, 17d; CSCN, pp. 168, 169, table 25 on p. 171
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