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St. Sydney, Nicholson Museum 9

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number St. Sydney, Nicholson Museum 9
Current Location Sydney, Nicholson Museum
Publication Permission Status permission for publication upon enquiry only
Publication Status partly published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Aswan / Syene (Swn; Συήνη, סונ, ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲁⲛ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery (unknown)
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Nicholson, Charles
Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution donation
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 1860 and
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Nicholson, Charles
Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Steindorff, Georg
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type stela
Dating of Object arabic Period
Dating between 641 and 1517
Criteria for Dating Based on the paleography.
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Broken on all sides except upper left corner

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object one-sided
Inks and Pigments engraved
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Missing in all sides except the end of the first two lines in the upper left corner
Script, Primary Arabic
Language, Primary Arabic
Comments on Handwriting The letters are written in Small thickness.
Comments on Text Layout There is an intermediate margin on the upper and left sides
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 2
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Fragment of an Islamic tombstone
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | tombstone
Summary of Content Fragment of an Islamic tombstone, the word الرحيم mentioned in the end of the first line.
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text The only legible word is the last word of the commonly used formula for the commencement of the Koran.
Multilingualism Monolingual
Religion Islam

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
1بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
2
1[In the name of God, the Merciful] the Compassionate
2 [///] ..؟..
Sydney_NM_R.9_S1_002
Reserved Copyright
Sydney_NM_R.9_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Arabic Period 21 AH 641 CE ;

 

Pictures

Sydney_NM_R.9_S1_002
Reserved Copyright
Sydney_NM_R.9_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 310983
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Ahmed Kamal
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 310983 (= St. Sydney, Nicholson Museum 9), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal.