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A CARVED WHITE MARBLE CENOTAPH
A CARVED WHITE MARBLE CENOTAPH

FATIMID EGYPT, 11TH CENTURY

细节
A CARVED WHITE MARBLE CENOTAPH
FATIMID EGYPT, 11TH CENTURY
Of ridged long format with pointed end, rising from a stepped base through a band of vertical foliated kufic running the length of the panel to the two similar bands of kufic together forming the pointed ridge, areas of damage, originally longer
35in. (89cm.) long

拍品专文

The inscription along one side of the top records that this is the tomb of Abu'l Husayn b. Muhammad al-...., who died on Tuesday 12th Jumada al-akhrar in the year ..... Unfortunately the date is no longer there. The other inscriptions are koranic, and contain prayers and invocations.