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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
This pillar of granite, in form of an inverted cone, three feet four inches high, from eight inches I-half to six inches I-half diameter, with an inscription in Oriental characters in six lines, each letter three inches I-fourth high, was brought 1726 from Alexandria, where it was found buried in the sands, and supposed to have served as a tomb stone. It was given by captain Childerston, who brought it to England, to Mr. John Oxley, surgeon in Horsley Down, Southwark. It came afterwards about 1737 or 1738 to Mr. Ames, then living at Wapping; and was purchased after his decease by the late James West, Esq; and on his death by Gustavus Brander, Esq; F.A.S. who has since presented it to the Society of Antiquaries, together with the several papers addressed to Mr. Ames attempting to illustrate and explain its original designation. From these papers the following abstract is here subjoined with additional observations interwoven.
page 1 note [a] See pl. I.
page 2 note [b] Herbelot, Bibl. Orient. p. 590. See Nieubuhr, Descript. de l'Arable, I. p. 88.
page 2 note [c] The fine mosque out of Cairo has round its frieze within sentences cut in large gilt characters called the Couphe character, in which they here antiently wrote the Arabic language; and over these are inscriptions in Arabic characters. Pocock, Desc. of the East, I. 31.
page 4 note [d] The words in Roman Mr. Bohun doubted of.
page 4 note [e] Or Alaftal.
page 5 note [f] Elmacin. lib. iii. p. 321. 323. Marigny Hist. des Arabes iv. 105.
page 5 note [g] Sale, Prelim. Disc. to Alcoran, p. 122. Alcoran, c. ii. p. 16.
page 5 note [h] Herbelot, v. Abraha. Sale Coran, c. cv. note. This seems to be what Herbelot calls Thaalab.
page 6 note [i] The Caaba at Mecca is derived from its height or square form. Sale, Prel. Disc.
page 6 note [k] Mr. Bohun persuaded himself that it had its fellow at another corner, and that they both stood on pedestals and had architraves over them.
page 6 note [l] Quidam e maximis primatum. Elmacin, III. p. 321.
page 6 note [m] Ibid.
page 7 note [n] Afhdal, Herbelot, p. 632. Elmacin, p. 369. This was also the name of the great Saladin's eldest son.
page 7 note [o] Contigit in Egypto terræmotus ingens die Veneris 3 Tuti A. 828 hora diei 3. Ea nocte Afdalus stratiarcha destruxit templum Harijrœ, et divulgavit id ex terræ motu accidisse. Elmacin, p. 369.
page 8 note [p] Bohad. p. 209. 219. Marin, Vie de Saladin, II. 323.
page 8 note [q] Elmacin, p. 307. 308.
page 8 note [r] xx. c. 16. Some ascribe it to Alexander the Great: others to Ptolomy ion of Lagus. Le Beau, Hist. du Bas Empire, V. 245.
page 8 note [s] Univ. Hist. XVI. 429. Le Beau, V. 353.
page 10 note [t] Abulfarag. Hist. Dynast. p. 262.
page 10 note [u] See Hudson's Geograpb. Minor. vol. III. p. 8.
page 11 note [x] See Abulfarag. Hist. Dynast. p. 192. &c.
page 12 note [y] Abulfarag. p. 319.
page 13 note [z] Pocock, Pref. to Carmen Tograi.
page 13 note [a] See Golius, Not. in Alfergan. p. 124.