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Tag: ayyubid

Reusing tombstones: a Fatimid-Ayyubid funerary stele from Metropolitan Museum

Even if Halloween is in two weeks, I love tombstones. This one I find particularly intriguing: it is strange to think that a tombstone can be reused, but that what’s happened in Ayyubid period. The tombstone is kept at the Metropolitan Museum, New York (acc. num. 2010.225) and contains some valuable information over the periods…

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