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Two Coptic Inscriptions In The Abou El-Goud Storage Magazine, Ahmed Taleb Abdeldayem Khalil

Journal of the General Union of Arab Archaeologists

إثنان من النقوش القبطية المحفوظة بالمخزن المتحفي بمنطقة أبو الجود [Ar]

تتناول هذه المقالة نشر إثنان من النقوش القبطية المحفوظة بالمخزن المتحفي بمنطقة أبو الجود، أحدهما تم تسجيله في مجموعة تحمل عنوان البرت تاوضروس، واﻵخر هو جزء من مجموعة بعنوان زيادات معبد الأقصر. هذان النقشان كتبا باللهجة الصعيدية. وعلى الرغم من عدم وجود أي بيانات عن موقعهما الأصلي. إلا أنه من المحتمل أنه تم العثور عليهما في جبانات تقع بالقرب من أديرة.

[EN] In this article, two inscriptions preserved in the Abou El-Goud storage magazine are published. One of them was registered in a collection entitled «Albert …

Early Manuscripts Of Quran (Through Data Of Hijazi Calligraphy And Archaeological Evidence), Adnan Mohammed Al-Shareef, Yasser Ismail Abdul Salam

Journal of the General Union of Arab Archaeologists

(En) This research tackled the manuscripts of the early Quran (through the data of Hijazi calligraphy and archaeological evidence), reviewing the spelling phenomena that characterized Quran writing in close relation to the reality of Arabic writing. It also attempted to enlist the characteristics of calligraphy in early Quran copies as influenced by Nabataean script or what might be called early Arabic calligraphy (Hijazi calligraphy), comparing it with early Arabic inscriptions. Moreover, the study identified the relationship between the spelling system used in writing early Quran copies and the one used in early Arabic inscriptions, and attempted to conceive ways of …

The Inscriptions Of Assurnasirpal Ii And His Son, Tammi J. Schneider

CGU Faculty Publications and Research

The existence of written records at a site is viewed with great joy because texts impart information that cannot be gleaned from other material remains. When no such texts are found, the archaeologists and other associated scholars must work that much harder to understand what happened at the site. One way this is done is by analyzing the remains of the site in light of other contemporary information, as has been done for Hasanlu in this issue. Contemporary sites of Assyria have produced historical texts recounting the activities of the Assryian kings that not only shed light on the period …

The Work Of Ai-Hasan B. Muhammad, Die Engraver At Isbahan And Al-Muhammadiyya, Carol Bier

Carol Bier

Four Buyid coins in t he collection of t he American Numismatic Society, struck between 358- 68H. /A.D. 968- 79 at two mints in Jibal province, illustrate a phenomenon unique in the history of Islamic coinage.! They concern the status of a die engraver named al-Hasan b. Muhammad. A silver dirham bearing his signature was first noted by George C. Miles and published in 1938. It was at that time the only Islamic coin known to bear t he signature of a die engraver. More recently, four additional coins have been located which shed more light upon the career of …