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 "id": "place/al-masalla-iskandariyya",
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 "slug": "al-masalla-iskandariyya",
 "label": {
  "ar": "المسلتان بالإسكندرية",
  "en": "The Obelisks of Alexandria"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "حجران متعامدان مربعان على طولهما، أعلاهما أضيق من أسفلهما، وعليهما كتابات بخط قديم، ويذكر الإدريسي عن أهل الخبر أنهما نُحتا من حجر جبل وأُقيما بأمر ملك. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 321}",
  "en": "Two square, tall stone obelisks, narrower at the top, bearing old inscriptions; al-Idrisi reports from informants that they were cut from a mountain and set up by a king. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p. 321}"
 },
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 "regions": [
  "egypt-nile"
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  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq, ed. Cairo 2002, p. 321 (scan page)",
   "generated_by": "Claude (Haiku 5.5)"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude (Haiku 5.5); page refs are scan indices"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "المسلتان حجران مربعان قائمان على طولهما، أعلاهما أضيق من أسفلهما، وعليهما كتابات بخط قديم. ينقل الإدريسي عن أهل الخبر أنهما نُحتا من حجر جبل وأُقيما بأمر ملك. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.321}"
    }
   ],
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    "lang": "ar",
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The Two Obelisks: two square stones standing upright along their length, the upper part narrower than the lower, with writing on them in an ancient script. al-Idrisi reports, on the authority of the people of the account, that they were hewn from mountain stone and set up by the order of a king. {cite:nuzhat-al-mushtaq-2002 p.321}"
    }
   ],
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    "lang": "en",
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    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
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 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}