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St. Elephantine, excavation DAIK 39002ALk-3

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number St. Elephantine, excavation DAIK 39002ALk-3
Publication Number Abdal-Latīf Stelae. 3
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Publication Status unpublished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 1312 AH/ 1894 CE
Dating between 1894 and
Criteria for Dating Date in the text.
Range of Preservation incomplete
Comments on Object Almost rectangular in shape. The entire right side has been lost and only a fragment of its lower left corner survives.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object one-sided
Script, Primary Arabic
Language, Primary Arabic
Comments on Handwriting It was written in the Naskh script.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 4
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Tombstone
Text Types
  • documentary
Summary of Content A fragment of a commemorative stela possibly a tombstone.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Comments on Text Only a few letters of the owner's proper name are preserved. Nevertheless, the name can be reconstructed as ʿAbd al-Rahīm, ʿAbd al-ʿAlīm or ʿAbd al-Karīm.
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Islam

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
1312 AH 1894 CE Date in the text.;

 

Pictures

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Literature

 

DatasetID 316631
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 316631 (= St. Elephantine, excavation DAIK 39002ALk-3), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal.