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Provenance
Meinarti
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
building VII, resting face up on floor
Excavation no.
6-K-3/147
Present location
Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.
SNM 18110
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Arabic
Content
epitaph of Fāṭima
Date
26 May 1061
Notes
the same hand as DBMNT 598
Coptic month
26 May fell on Saturday
Material
sandstone
Object dimensions
not recorded
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
 
Lines
12
Height of letters
 
Description
rectangular slab; epigraphic field framed by incised line on 3 sides apart from bottom
Decorative elements
upper margin decorated with pattern of triangles, with star of David in centre
State of preservation
complete, but put together from 2 parts - crack visible in central part
Date
26 May 1061
Chronological systems
Egyptian calendar
day of the week
Era of the Saracens
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
"on Sunday, first day of (the month of) Payni, year three and fifty and four hundred" (ll. 9–11)
Months
Bauna
Weakdays
Sunday
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
Nigm el-Din Mohammed Sherif 1964, pl. 53
Image
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Source
 
Image
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Latest edition
Nigm el-Din Mohammed Sherif 1964, p. 249, pl. 53 (= TEI 26109)
Other editions
 
Other publications
Adams 1964, pp. 236, 248; Adams 2001, p. 100; Adams 2002, pp. 79–80, pl. 20d (1); Adams 2003, pp. 72–73, pl. 17c; Intisar Soghayroun Elzein 2004, pl. 2b; Vantini 2009, fig. on p. 103 (wrong date); CSCN, p. 166, table 25 on p. 171
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