Sandstone gravestone, inscribed in Kufic script

An image of Islamic stela. Tombstone/gravestone, inscribed. The text is in Cufic. The inscription is poorly preserved but it is evident that the owner was a woman, who died in late April or May AF 1056. The surface is blackened with smoke damage and so the stela was doubtless reused. Production Place/Find Spot: Aswan, Egypt. Sandstone, length 54 cm, width 39 cm, depth 6.5 cm, 1056 AD. Islamic period.

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Islamic stela. Tombstone/gravestone, inscribed. The text is in Cufic. The inscription is poorly preserved but it is evident that the owner was a woman, who died in late April or May AF 1056. The surface is blackened with smoke damage and so the stela was doubtless reused. Production Place/Find Spot: Aswan, Egypt. Sandstone, length 54 cm, width 39 cm, depth 6.5 cm, 1056 AD. Islamic period.

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Accession Number: E.38.1930
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/16.0
Focal length: 49
Camera: GFX 50S
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 768 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 646.53kB
Exposure time: 1/100
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 16/1
Captured: 2018:01:22 03:33:49

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11th Century AD antiquity Arabic Aswan carved cufic Egyptian Fitz_ANT grave marker grave relief gravestone inscriptions Islamic kufic language sandstone script stela stelae stele texts writing

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