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St. Aswan, Islamic cemetery 301

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number St. Aswan, Islamic cemetery 301
Publication Number Abdal-Raḥman Stèles, n 160
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 259 AH/ 873 CE
Dating between 873 and
Criteria for Dating Date in the text.
Comments on Object Almost rectangular in shape.

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 Written Surface 44 × 29 cm
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 11
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

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
259 AH Shawwāl 26 873 August 25 CE Date in the text.;

 

Pictures

160_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 315735
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 315735 (= St. Aswan, Islamic cemetery 301), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal.