Eastern Art Online, Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art

Ashmolean − Eastern Art Online, Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art

Search Results: objects

Show search help

Search Help

  • Searching for multiple terms
    • AND search: If you enter more than one search term in the search box, your search will retrieve results that contain all those terms. For example, enter ‘Iraq Iran', to find all object records containing both ‘Iraq' and ‘Iran'.
    • OR search: If you want to search for either one term or another, enter your search terms separated by ‘or'. For example, enter ‘Japan or China' to find all object records containing either Japan or China.
  • Partial wordsearch
    • Enter your term followed by an asterisk (*). For example, entering ‘Islam*' would return results for all records containing words beginning with ‘Islam', such as ‘Islam', ‘Islamic', and ‘Islamabad'.
  • Searching is always case insensitive
    • For example, searching for ‘India' is the same as searching for ‘india'.
  • Searching for a specific word or phrase
    • Enter your term within double quotation marks (""). For example, to search for the term Abbasid period, enter "Abbasid period".
  • Excluding a termfrom your search
    • Enter the term you want to search for, then a minus or subtraction sign, followed by the term you wish to exclude from your search. For example, if you want to search for records with the term ‘stoneware' but exclude records with the term ‘green', enter ‘stoneware -green'.
  • Searching in non-Latin alphabets
    • It is possible to search using non-Latin alphabets.
    • We do not currently translate all information into other languages.
    • We dotry to record information in non-Latin alphabets where it is:
      • An object's original title
      • A person's name
      • An inscription on an object
Oval bezel amulet from a bracelet, inscribed with the Throne versefront

© Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

Reference URL
?

Actions

Send e-mail

Contact us about this object

Send e-mail

Send to a friend

Oval bezel amulet from a bracelet, inscribed with the Throne verse

  • loan

Location

    • currently in research collection

Objects are sometimes moved to a different location. Our object location data is usually updated on a monthly basis. Contact the Jameel Study Centre if you are planning to visit the museum to see a particular object on display, or would like to arrange an appointment to see an object in our reserve collections.

 

Publications online

  • Islamic Seals and Talismans by Ludvik Kalus

    Catalogue of Islamic Seals and Talismans

    Bracelet composed of four elements, almost equal (I, II, III, IV).

    II - Yellow-brownish chalcedony, in lightly decorated silver setting; bezel; oval. The inscription is found on the central ground (A), within two oval lines, and on the border (B), surrounded on its outer edge by two oval lines. Three lines separated by the straight lines formed by elongations of ligatures (A), and one line (B). Cursive script; engraved.

    A - (1) 'In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. Say: "He is One [sic], [sic] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قل هو احد
    (2) God, [One], God the Everlasting Refuge, who has not begotten, and has not been be- لله [احد] الله الصمد لم ياد وما يو
    (3) gotten, and no one is equal to him." ' (Qur. CXII) Oh Able One! Oh Ever Forgiving One! لد ولم يكن له كفوا احد يا قادر يا غفار

    B - 'God, there is no god but He, the Living, the Everlasting. Slumber seizes Him not, neither sleep; to Him belongs all that is in the heavens and earth. Who is there that shall intercede with Him save by His leave? He knows what lies before them and what is after them, and they comprehend not anything of His knowledge save such as He wills. His Throne comprises the heavens and earth; the preserving of them oppresses Him not; He is the All-High, the All-glorious.' (Qur. II, 256/255)
    الله لا اله الا هو الحى القيوم لا تاخذه سنة ولا نوم له ما في السموات وما في الارض من
    ذا الذى يشفع عنده الا باذنه يعلم ما بين ايديهم وما خلفهم ولا يحيطون بشئ من علمه
    الا بما شاء وسع كرسيه السموات والارض ولا يؤده حفظهما وهو العلى العظيم

    There are dots, isolated or in groups, spread over the ground.

© 2013 University of Oxford - Ashmolean Museum