A CARVED WHITE MARBLE PRISMATIC TOMBSTONE
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A CARVED WHITE MARBLE PRISMATIC TOMBSTONE

PROBABLY TUNISIA, 11TH/12TH CENTURY

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A CARVED WHITE MARBLE PRISMATIC TOMBSTONE
PROBABLY TUNISIA, 11TH/12TH CENTURY
Of long high ridged form with flat ends, each side with two lines of elegant foliated kufic, the top similar, each end with the word Allah within a cusped arch, large central rectangular lug below, slight damage to base and high points
30½in. (77.5cm.) long

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The inscriptions are from the Qur'an, sura iii, v.18, and also state that this is the tomb of Abu'-Faraj(?) Husayn b. Hamd Hasnuya.