Nasrid tombstones from the fourteenth century: a gravestone engraved on both sides and the ep itap h of Yūsuf I
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https://doi.org/10.30827/meaharabe.v69i0.1061Keywords:
Epigraphy, Nasrids, Al-AndalusAbstract
This article focuses on two rectangular gravestones that appeared in Granada at the beginning of the twentieth century and are believed to have been lost before the Spa- nish Civil War. One is a fully preserved gravestone with inscriptions on both sides referring to the death of an individual in 746/1345. It was found in the now unpopulated area known as Zalia (Alcaucín, Málaga). The other is a fragment of white marble containing part of the epitaph that marked the tomb of the sultan of Granada Yūsuf I (d. 755/1354); with this one, three of the four tombstones found in the Alhambra Rawda in 1574 have survived to our days. Besides editing and translating the inscriptions, this paper reviews the bibliography about the stones and their provenance, while also discussing similar inscriptions found elsewhere, and possible parallels. Both inscriptions provide complete dated alphabets. The paper also provides information about the series of vicissitudes through which the stones passed until they were considered lost.
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