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St. Aswan, Islamic cemetery 222

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number St. Aswan, Islamic cemetery 222
Publication Number Abdal-Raḥman Stèles, n 16
Current Location Aswan, Islamic Antiquities magazine
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 archaeological excavation
Certainty:
Date of Discovery
Term. Ante / Post Quem Non
between 10 12 1960 and 18 4 1964
Finder (= First Purchaser) ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Tawwāb and others
Certainty:
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Aswan / Syene
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution excavation finds

Object

Object Type stela
Dating of Object 229 AH/ 843 CE
Dating between 843 and
Criteria for Dating Date in the text.
Comments on Object Almost rectangular in shape. The stelae is broken into two parts at the middle.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object one-sided
Script, Primary Arabic
Language, Primary Arabic
Comments on Handwriting Written in the Kufic script.
Comments on Text Layout The text has equal and wide margin on the right, left and upper side, but the bottom size is four times as large as the other margins and there is a fractured part of it at the left side. Written Surface 39.5 × 23 cm
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 12
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Tombstone
Text Types
  • documentary | tombstone
Summary of Content Tombstone
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual
Religion Islam

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
229 AH Ṣafar 19 843 November 17 CE Date in the text.;

 

Pictures

20181107-120008_p15_S1
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 315588
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 315588 (= St. Aswan, Islamic cemetery 222), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal.