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- Provenance
- Dongola
- Region
- Makuria
- Findspot
- throne hall/mosque, mounted in recess in north pilaster of east wall of the square hall on first floor, to the left of mihrab
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Dongola, in situ
- Museum no.
- Medium
- stela
- Technique
- incised
- Type of text
- foundation inscription
- Language
- Arabic
- Content
- stela commemorating conversion of Throne Hall to mosque
- Date
- 29 May 1317
- Notes
- RCEA 10 3841 gives wrong date (31 May 1222)
there are two records in TEI for this inscription, both inadequate: no. 4011 contains false description of the inscription and no. 26112 false date
- Material
- marble
- Object dimensions
- H: 40.5; W: 34; Th: 8
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- 10
- Height of letters
- Description
- rectangular slab with 10 lines of incised inscription
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- almost completely preserved, upper left and lower right corners broken off, surface obliterated in places
- Date
- 29 May 1317
- Chronological systems
- Era of the Saracens
Islamic calendar
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- 16 Rabia I, 717
- Months
- Rabī‘ I
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- Godlewski 2015c, fig. 1–13, bottom left
- Image
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- Source
- Lepsius 1849–59, VI (plates), 12, pl. 100, Arab. 2: https://edoc3.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/lepsius/tafelwa6.html
- Image
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- Latest edition
- RCEA 10 3841 (= TEI 4011)
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Lepsius 1849–59: 5 (text), p. 250; 6 (plates), 12, pl. 100, Arab. 2; Monneret de Villard 1938, p. 220; Crawford 1951, p. 35, with n. 23 (translation); Yusuf Fadl Hasan 1967, p. 125, fig. 2; Welsby 2002, p. 247, fig. 98; Insoll 2003, p. 115, fig. 3.10 (serious mistake in date); CSCN, pp. 122, 165, with n. 87; Obłuski et alii 2013, p. 250, fig. 2; Godlewski 2013a, p. 137 (with fig.); Godlewski 2015c, pp. 22–3, fig. 1–13, bottm left (description and English translation)
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