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St. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum E.1.1854

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Cambridge, Fitzwilliam-Museum
Inventory Number St. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum E.1.1854
Publication Number Martin, Stelae from Egypt, 125
Current Location Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England
Publication Permission Status no permission for publication necessary
Publication Status 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:
Finder (= First Purchaser) (unknown)
Certainty:
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt unknown
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 1854 and
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Mill, W.H.
Certainty: high
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Gillespie, Robert Winton
Certainty:

Object

Object Type stela
Dating of Object 1st Muḥarram 441 AH/ 5th June1049 CE
Dating between 1049 and 1049
Criteria for Dating Date in the text.
Range of Preservation complete
State of Preservation Some minor fractions at the bottom which did not affect the text.
Comments on Object Part of the left side of the back carefully worked, but the remainder is rough (deep chisel marks 0,5 cm wide in its base). Almost rectangular in shape.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object one-sided
Inks and Pigments engraved
Range of Preservation (Text) complete
State of Preservation (Text) The text is well preserved.
Script, Primary Arabic
Language, Primary Arabic
Comments on Handwriting A flowing hand with relatively regularly formed letters, the lines are also quite regular. Dots and vowels aren't used.
Comments on Text Layout The text was placed centered onto the surface of the potsherd, with broad and equal margins on all sides, except for the bottom which bigger than the other margins - almost twice their breadth.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 9
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Rectangular stela (tombstone) belonged to a woman named Zayn
Ancient Author of Text (Unknown [not mentioned in text])
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | tombstone
Summary of Content Tomb stone belonged to a woman named Zayn who died on 5 June 1049 CE.
Location of Composition unknown unknown Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text In the book of Martin, G. T., Stelae from Egypt it was mentioned that the name zyan, is not acommon name for women. One other occurrence is cited: in Abū l-Faraj al-Isfahānī al-Aghānī (cairo 1927-74), VII, 306. Here awoman called Zayn. Who lived in the first half of the ninth century, is found. Browne read the name of the great- great- great- grandfather of Zyan as Rāfiʿ. the former name seems to be correct, though it does not appear to be cited hitherto as a name, unlike Rāfiʿ wichh is not uncommon.
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual
Gender Woman Man
Comment on Gender - Acticvity of woman: The deceased - Identifier of woman: daughter of a man
Religion Islam

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
1بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
2كل نفس ذائقة الموت ثم ا
3لينا ترجعون1Q 29:57 اللهــم صلي على
4محمد النبي واله وارحم ا
5متك زين ابنة حسن بن عباس
6بن ابراهيم بن حسن بن ربيع تو
7فيت في مستهل المحرم سنة
8احدى واربعين واربع ما
9 ئة

1 Q 29:57
1 In the name of God, the Merciful the Compassionate
2 Every soul will taste death, then
3 to us will you be returned. O God, bless Muḥammad
4 the prophet and his household, and have mercy on
5 your slave Zayn bt. Ḥassan b. ʿAbbās
6 b. Ibrāhīm b. Ḥassan b. Rābiʿ, who
7 dide at the beginning of Muḥarram in the year
8 four hundred and for-
9ty-one
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People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
15800 man Muḥammad محمد Arabic

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Fatimid caliphate 441 AH Muḥarram 01 1049 June 5 CE According to the date In the text. This date is in the period of the Fatimid caliphs, Al-Mustansir Biallāh (427–487 AH/ 1036 - 1094 CE).;

 

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Literature

 

DatasetID 310997
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 310997 (= St. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum E.1.1854), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal.