Grabstein

3D Model

ID: MKGHamburg 2021.47
Object type: tomb stone
Origin: Egypt probably Fustat
Date/Period: 830 c.E. / Abbasid
Material: Marble
Measurements: 71 cm (height); 49,5 cm (diameter)
Language: Arabic
Provenance: received from Collection of Völkerkundemuseum Hamburg in 1925
Museum/Collection: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg Inv. 2021.47

The research for this 3D object was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany´s Excellence Strategy – EXC 2176 ‘Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures’, project no. 390893796. The research was conducted within the scope of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Universität Hamburg.