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| Collection | Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo |
| Inventory Number | St. Elephantine, excavation DAIK k12437 |
| Publication Number | Abdal-Latīf Stelae. 2 |
| Current Location | Aswan, The magazine of the Pharaonic taftīsh (SCA Aswan) |
| Publication Permission Status | (unknown) |
| Publication Status | unpublished |
| 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 Type | stela |
| Dating of Object | 322 AH/ 934 CE |
| Dating | between 934 and |
| Criteria for Dating | Date in the text. |
| Range of Preservation | incomplete |
| Comments on Object | Almost rectangular in shape. Only the right side of the stela is preserved. |
| Localization of Text on Object | one-sided | |
| Range of Preservation (Text) | incomplete | |
| State of Preservation (Text) | Most of the Kufic inscription survives, with only the first two lines of the inscription being partly damaged. | |
| Script, Primary | Arabic | |
| Language, Primary | Arabic | |
| Comments on Handwriting | Written in the Kufic script. | |
| recto | verso | |
| Quantity of Lines | 10 | |
| Quantity of Columns | 1 | |
| Modern Title | Tombstone |
| Text Types |
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| Summary of Content | Funerary stela belonged to a man who died 322 AH/934 CE. |
| Location of Composition | Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism | Monolingual Script = Language |
| Gender | Man |
| Religion | Islam |
| RulerID | Regnal Year | MonthID | Day Date of the Text | Gregorian Date | dating_comment |
| 322 AH | Sha‘bān | 12 | 934 July 28 CE | Date in the text. This date coincides with the beginning of the Ikhshidid rule. Muḥammad b. Ṭughj al-Ikhshīd was appointed governor by the Abbasid Caliph, and he achieved the independence of Egypt from 323-359 AH/943-969 CE.; |
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| Reserved Copyright |
| DatasetID | 316630 |
| 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 316630 (= St. Elephantine, excavation DAIK k12437), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal. |
