Publication Date
447 / 1055
Publication Place
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National Archaeological Museum
Subject
Engraved and engraved marble.
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
الارتفاع: 127 سم؛ العرض: 50.5 سم؛ الأرضية الكتابية: 107 x 46 سم
Library
Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID
50422
Record ID
object;ISL;es;Mus01;20;ar
Library Location
National Archaeological Museum
Date
447 / 1055
Notes
This semi-cylindrical funerary stele, made of bluish marble, features a rectangular inscriptional decoration framed by a small relief. Kufic letters and curly relief are carved above the background and highlighted by scissor work. The decoration, which identifies the dead and contains a series of supplications to God, declares: “In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. O people, God’s promise is true, so do not be deceived by this worldly life, and let not deceit deceive you about God.” This is the grave of Ibn Ahmad Muhammad bin Mughith... He died, may God have mercy on him, on the night... of the year four hundred and forty-seven. A small relief in the form of a vein; its content always gives the same information: the name of the deceased, the date of his death, and sometimes some praise for the deceased or the reader of the inscription, while the rest of the stele is of a religious nature. In general, the Spanish-Islamic graves are very simple, but of various types, and this stele placed at the head of the grave refers to a single grave.
Sample Text
Margarita Sánchez Llorente “Funeral Stele” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;es;Mus01;20;ar
