Text 578
- Provenance
- Tafa
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- cemetery
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo
- Museum no.
- 12697
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Arabic
- Content
- epitaph of Maymūna
- Date
- 1 February 1131
- Notes
- 1 February fell on Sunday
- Material
- sandstone
- Object dimensions
- H: 64; W: 34
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- 12
- Height of letters
- Description
- roughly rectangular sandstone stela, with diagonal lower edge; epigraphic field framed by raised border
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete, but broken into two roughly even pieces
- Date
- 1 February 1131
- Chronological systems
- day of the week
Era of the Saracens
Islamic calendar
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- "on Friday, on the first 'lunation' of (the month of) Rabī‘ I, year five hundred twenty-five" (ll. 10–12)
- Months
- Rabī‘ I
- Weakdays
- Friday
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- Wiet 1939, p. 188 (no. 2327), pl. 34 (= TEI 7720)
- Other editions
- RCEA 8 3040
- Other publications
- Monneret de Villard 1938, p. 118, n. 3; CSCN, p. 168, table 25 on p. 171
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