IDENTIFIERS
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id:	49046
accession number:	E.1.1854

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Sandstone grave relief, excavated in Aswan. The script is Kufic, a form of Arabic and reads: In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate. Every soul shall taste of Death: then until we shall you be returned. O God, bless Muhammed the Prophet and his household; and have mercy on your handmiaden Zayn, the daughter of Hasan, the son of Abbas, the son of Ibrahim, the son, the son of Hasan, the son of Rabi, who died at the beginning of Muharram AH 441. The tomb stone therefore belonged to a woman named Zayn who died on 10 June 1049 AD.
object type: Sandstone tombstone, inscribed in Kufic script.
title:	tombstone

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Antiquities

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/49046





TECHNIQUES
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inscribed
TECHNIQUES
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carved

CATEGORIES
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category: stelae

DATING
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creation date:	1049 - 1049
creation date earliest:	1049
creation date latest:	1049
culture:	Islamic period


DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: m
value: 0.068

dimension: Height
units: m
value: 0.51

dimension: Width
units: m
value: 0.35



CITATIONS
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Stelae from Egypt and Nubia in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, c. 3000BC - AD1150
Collecting Egyptian antiquities in the year 1838: Reverend William Hodge Mill and Robert Curzon, Baron Zouche
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