St. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum E.1.1854

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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

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 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.

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

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	(Unknown [not mentioned in 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

Transcription

Translation

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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-
9	ty-one

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

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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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.