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St. Aswan, Islamic cemetery 184

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number St. Aswan, Islamic cemetery 184
Publication Number Abdal-Raḥman Stèles, n 110
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: high
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: high
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 250 AH/ 865 CE
Dating between 865 and
Criteria for Dating Date in the text.
Comments on Object Almost rectangular in shape.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object hair side
Script, Primary Arabic
Language, Primary Arabic
Comments on Handwriting Written in the Kufic script.
Comments on Text Layout Written Surface 25 × 13 cm
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 8
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 Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Islam

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
250 AH Dhū l-Ḥijja 01 865 January 3 CE Date in the text.;

 

Pictures

20181107-120008_p109_S
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Literature

 

DatasetID 315684
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 315684 (= St. Aswan, Islamic cemetery 184), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal.