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Lot Essay
This tombstone is that of a certain 'A'isha, daughter of 'Abdullah [who died] on 22 Jumada II [4 or 5]81.
Around the base of the columns are the inscriptions [Muhammad rasul] Allah, 'Ali wa [li Allah] (Muhammad is God's Prophet, 'Ali is God's Deputy). This inscription indicates that 'A'isha was probably a Shi'i. Down the sides are part of a hadith of the Prophet.
A tombstone dated AH 503/1109-10 AD in the Louvre Museum shares strong stylistic similarities with the present panel Thérèse Bittar, Pierres et stucs épigraphiés, Paris, 2003, pp.151-3, cat.59). The letter ha is identically composed of two horizontal loops which curve downward below the writing line on each side when the letter is a middle position. Blank spaces are filled in with paired upstrokes on both examples and the fleshy palmette scrolls found in places are also very similar. This suggests an identical Iranian origin and a reading of the date, of which the end is illegible, in the years 400 of the hijra rather than in the years 500.
Around the base of the columns are the inscriptions [Muhammad rasul] Allah, 'Ali wa [li Allah] (Muhammad is God's Prophet, 'Ali is God's Deputy). This inscription indicates that 'A'isha was probably a Shi'i. Down the sides are part of a hadith of the Prophet.
A tombstone dated AH 503/1109-10 AD in the Louvre Museum shares strong stylistic similarities with the present panel Thérèse Bittar, Pierres et stucs épigraphiés, Paris, 2003, pp.151-3, cat.59). The letter ha is identically composed of two horizontal loops which curve downward below the writing line on each side when the letter is a middle position. Blank spaces are filled in with paired upstrokes on both examples and the fleshy palmette scrolls found in places are also very similar. This suggests an identical Iranian origin and a reading of the date, of which the end is illegible, in the years 400 of the hijra rather than in the years 500.