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St. P.Cair.IslArt inv. 1506/78

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number St. P.Cair.IslArt inv. 1506/78
Publication Number Stèles funéraires, III, n 949
Current Location Cairo, Salahdin citadel
Publication Permission Status no permission for publication necessary
Publication Status published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Aswan / Syene (Swn; Συήνη, סונ, ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲁⲛ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: unknown
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
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 official collection from site

Object

Object Type stela
Dating of Object 257 AH/ 870-871 CE
Dating between 870 and 871
Criteria for Dating Date in the text.
Comments on Object According to Hawary, Cairo Islamic Art Museum records show that only 250 tombstones from Aswan came to the museum in 1904. However, ʿAbd al-Tawwāb confirmed that the groups of tombstones bearing the numbers 2721 and 1506 belong to the Aswan cemetery. Also, the records of the Committee for the Conservation of the Monuments of Arab Art — which managed Islamic and Coptic archaeological sites — confirm that the number of the other tombstones that were transferred from Aswan to the museum was 2104. And that they were transferred in two batches, the first comprising 999 complete tombstones, in 1892, under the auspices of M. Grébault. They hold the registration number 1506 in the museum records. One tombstone was broken into two parts, bringing the number of a thousand. Committee records also show that 1,104 remaining tombstones (461 complete and 643 pieces) were transferred to the museum and registered under number 2721. See Hassan Hawary and Hussein Rached, Catalogue Général du Musée Arabe du Caire. Stèles Funéraires, Institut français d’archéologie orientale, Le Caire 1932, I, V; ʿAbd ar-Raḥman Muḥammad ʿAbd at-Tawwāb, Stèles Islamiques De La Necropole D'assouan, Institut Francais D'archeologie Orientale Du Caire, Le Caire 1977, I, V–VI; Franz Herz, Comité de Conservation des Monuments de l'Art Arabe. Fascicule 14, exercice 1897, Imprimerie de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale, Cairo 1898, 31-32. For more information about these tombstones, see the committee minutes of years 1889, 31; 1892, 43; 1896, 8, 31-33, 59-60; 1897, 31-32, 172; 1898, 140-141; 1901, 73; 1902, 2, 42; 1904, 4, 13; 1907, 60; 1909, 153; 1915-1916, 430-431, 702-703; 1946-1953, 217-218, 220. https://www.persee.fr/doc/ccmaa_1110-6824_1898_num_1897_14_5472 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 Lines 13
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 Script = Language Monolingual
Gender Man
Religion Islam

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
275 AH 870 December CE 871 January CE Date in the text.;

 

Pictures

949_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 316681
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 316681 (= St. P.Cair.IslArt inv. 1506/78), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal.