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Large Islamic Stone Tablet circa 10th Century found in ruins at Latakia
Large Islamic Stone Tablet circa 10th Century found in ruins at Latakia
Large Islamic Stone Tablet circa 10th Century found in ruins at Latakia
Large Islamic Stone Tablet circa 10th Century found in ruins at Latakia
Large Islamic Stone Tablet circa 10th Century found in ruins at Latakia
Large Islamic Stone Tablet circa 10th Century found in ruins at Latakia
Large Islamic Stone Tablet circa 10th Century found in ruins at Latakia

Large Islamic Stone Tablet circa 10th Century found in ruins at Latakia

$ 290.39

Availability: 80 in stock
  • Condition: Excellent Relief Carving with Ancient Mineralization
  • Religion: Islam

    Description

    This is a large ancient limestone tablet ( 6" x 3.75" x 1/2" ) found in the ruins at Latakia, Syria. I am the second modern person to have handled this since it's internment sometime after circa 900 A.D. This was found by an IT specialist working in Syria just after the civil war ended in Lebanon. He came to the U.S. , packed it away and forgot about it until years later. The script is Syric  Abjad and is similar to the alphabetic characters of ancient Phoenicia, Hebrew and Arabic. All of the characters are consonants and the words run together with diacritic marks (the little circles above the text) to indicate vowels. If you view modern arabic characters you will see those diacritic marks used in their writing today. I cannot translate it and I don't know anyone who can. On the reverse there is a red mineralization caused by iron oxide from the soil in which it was interred. The mineralization goes into the the bottom of the relief carving itself. The carving is expertly chiseled out of the trapezoidal panel carved into the stone's face on both sides. A quite rare unique antiquity from a forgotten time in Syria's medieval history and large enough to display quite well.