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We are privileged to offer a summary of the massive campaign of excavation and survey conducted by the author and his team from Japan in northern Egypt and the neighbouring coast of Sinai. Over the last few years they have excavated a large sector of al-Fustat (the early Islamic settlement on the outskirts of modern Cairo), mapped the early Christian monastery at Wadi al-Tur (sixth–twelfth century AD), recorded early Islamic rock inscriptions on Mt Naqus eighth–twentieth century AD), mapped the port and mosque at Raya (originating in the sixth–twelfth or thirteenth century AD) and investigated on a large scale the fourteenth–twentieth-century sequence at al-Kilani (al-Tur). Among the objects unearthed at al-Kilani were 4000 fragments of manuscripts. The work is throwing new light on early Islam, its development of social and commercial networks, and its relation with Christian, Coptic and Byzantine cultures.

Il s’agit d’un document épigraphique sculpté en relief sur la paroi d’une vaisselle en poterie commune acquise en Égypte en 1953 par l’historien tunisien H. H. Abdelwahhab. Cette pièce unique reste toutefois introuvable de nos jours. Ce document est le seul dans la céramique égyptienne d’époque toulounide à avoir mentionné à la fois le nom de la ville d’al‑Fusṭāṭ, une date de fabrication (256/869‑70), le prénom d’un personnage et une formule de souhait. L’étude de cette vaisselle ne se limite pas seulement à l’édition de son texte, mais elle essaye de trouver les arguments capables de confirmer son authenticité et sa valeur historique. It is an epigraphic document carved in relief on the wall of a common pottery tableware acquired in Egypt in 1953 by the Tunisian historian H. H. Abdelwahhab. But, unfortunately, this tableware is nowhere to be found. This document is the only one in Egyptian Tulunid ceramics to have mentioned the name of the city of al‑Fusṭāṭ, a date of manufacture (256/869‑70), the first name of a character and a wish form. The study of this tableware is not only limited to the edition of its text but it tries to find the arguments capable of confirming its authenticity and its historical value.