The case, also known as the Mystery of the Somerton Man, is an unsolved case of an unidentified man found dead in 1948 on the Somerton Park beach, just south of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. The case is named after the Persian phrase , meaning "ended" or "finished", which was printed on a scrap of paper found months later in the fob pocket of the man's trousers. The scrap had been torn from the final page of a copy of , authored by 12th century poet . was misspelt as in many early reports, and this error has often been repeated, leading to confusion about the name in the media.