A WHITE CALCITE TOMBSTONE

EGYPT, 9TH CENTURY

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A WHITE CALCITE TOMBSTONE
EGYPT, 9TH CENTURY
Of rectangular form, the face carved with a five-line heavily stylised angular kufic inscription within an arched surround, a band of similar decoration below, the spandrels with parallel curved lines, slight damages to corners
27.3/8 x 15¼in. (69.5 x 39cm.)

拍品專文

Carved in relief in kufic with sura cdii (al-ikhlas). The five lines of writing seem not to have continued since the lowest line is a decorative border made up of a series of lam-alifs. The panel may have been intended as a mihrab. The calligraphy is similar, though a little more provincial, to the white marble stone sold as lot 307, October 1988.