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St. Elephantine, excavation DAIK k12394

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number St. Elephantine, excavation DAIK k12394
Publication Number Abdal-Latīf Stelae. 1
Current Location Aswan, The magazine of the Pharaonic taftīsh (SCA Aswan)
Publication Permission Status (unknown)
Publication Status unpublished

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery archaeological excavation
Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser) Excavation team Elephantine, German Archaeological Institute Cairo and Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research on Ancient Egypt
Certainty:
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Elephantine
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 301 AH/ 913 CE
Dating between 913 and
Criteria for Dating Date in the text.
Range of Preservation incomplete
Comments on Object Almost rectangular in shape. The text field is slightly sunken with the remaining stone forming a frame around the field. The upper part of the stela and portions of the left side are missing.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object one-sided
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
Script, Primary Arabic
Language, Primary Arabic
Comments on Handwriting Written in the Kufic script.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Tombstone
Text Types
  • documentary | tombstone
Summary of Content Funerary stela belonged to a woman who died 301 AH/913 CE.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Woman
Religion Islam

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Abbasid rule (II) 301 AH 913 CE Date in the text.;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 316629
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 316629 (= St. Elephantine, excavation DAIK k12394), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal.