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Lot 8A*,W

A Fatimid marble Funerary Stele
Egypt, 9th/ 10th Century

23 April 2013, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£3,000 - £4,000

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A Fatimid marble Funerary Stele
Egypt, 9th/ 10th Century

of irregular rectangular form, carved with thirteen lines of kufic inscription
58.8 x 42.5 cm.

Footnotes

Provenance: Private Canadian collection.

The inscriptions confirm the conversion of a certain Zaynab, daughter of Hamdun Abi Na'im to Islam.

For a similar carved funerary stele, Mikhail B. Piotrovsky and John Vrieze, Art of Islam: Earthly Beauty, Heavenly Art, Exhibition Catalogue, Amsterdam, December 1999 to April 2000, no. 176.

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