Text 579
- Provenance
- Derr
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- cemetery
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo
- Museum no.
- 13514
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- epitaph
- Language
- Arabic
- Content
- epitaph of Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad
- Date
- 22 December 1137
- Notes
- 22 December fell on Wednesday
the only Arabic stela from Nubia with length of life
- Material
- marble
- Object dimensions
- H: 76; W: 62
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- 15
- Height of letters
- Description
- round-topped altar slab; epigraphic field framed by raised border on all sides, also inscribed
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete, but broken vertically into two fragments; minor lacunae in middle of inscription
- Date
- 22 December 1137
- Chronological systems
- day of the week
Era of the Saracens
Islamic calendar
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- "on Tuesday, six of the month of Rabī‘ II of the year five hundred thirty-two" (ll. 10–11)
- Months
- Rabī‘ II
- Weakdays
- Tuesday
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- Wiet 1939, p. 190 (no. 2329), pl. 35 (= TEI 7773)
- Other editions
- RCEA 8 3088
- Other publications
- Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, p. 101; 2, pl. 48 (upper left); Monneret de Villard 1938, p. 118; Flood 2001, p. 64, no. 6, fig. 11; CSCN, p. 168, table 25 on p. 171
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