Texts & Scripts from Elephantine: Object

St. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum E.1.1854 (More information about the Object)

Publication No.

Martin, Stelae from Egypt, 125

Modern Title

Rectangular stela (tombstone) belonged to a woman named Zayn

Summary

Tomb stone belonged to a woman named Zayn who died on 5 June 1049 CE.

¹ Q 29:57

1	In the name of God, the Merciful the Compassionate
2	Every soul will taste death, then
3	to us will you be returned. O God, bless Muḥammad
4	the prophet and his household, and have mercy on
5	your slave Zayn bt. Ḥassan b. ʿAbbās
6	b. Ibrāhīm b. Ḥassan b. Rābiʿ, who
7	dide at the beginning of Muḥarram in the year
8	four hundred and for-
9	ty-one

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