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St. Aswan, Islamic cemetery 98

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Collection

Inventory Number	St. Aswan, Islamic cemetery 98
Publication Number	Abdal-Raḥman Stèles, n 333
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	308 AH/ 920 CE
Dating	between 920 and
Criteria for Dating	Date in the text.
Comments on Object	Dimensions not available. 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.
	recto	verso
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
	308 AH	Ṣafar	16	920 July 7 CE	Date in the text.;

Pictures

333_S1_001

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Literature

Abd al-Tawwāb, Abd al-Raḥmān Maḥmūd & Ory, Solange & Gout, Jean-François, Stèles islamiques de la nécropole d'Assouan (1977). (vol. 3, no. 333, p. 34.)

DatasetID	316498
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 316498 (= St. Aswan, Islamic cemetery 98), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal.