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Heart-shaped bezel amulet from a pendant, with nasta’liq and thuluth inscription
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- probably 18th - 19th century (1701 - 1900)
- Associated people
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Prophet Muhammad (c. AD 570 - 632) (named on object)
- Material and technique
- chalcedony, incised; silver setting
- Dimensions
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with setting 3.7 x 2.2 x 0.7 cm (height x width x depth)
chalcedony 3 x 2 cm (height x width)
0.01 kg (weight)
- Material index
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inorganic › mineral › gemstone › quartz › chalcedony,inorganic › stone › gemstone › quartz › chalcedony,inorganic › mineral › gemstone › chalcedony,inorganic › mineral › silica › quartz › chalcedony,inorganic › stone › gemstone › chalcedony,inorganic › stone › silica › quartz › chalcedony,
- Technique index
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
- Accession no.
- LI1008.29
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Further reading
Kalus, Ludvik, Catalogue of Islamic Seals and Talismans (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), no. 1.74 on p. 86, pl. II.1.74
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Catalogue of Islamic Seals and Talismans
Yellow-grey chalcedony, in undecorated silver setting (being pendant); bezel; in the form of an escutcheon (A), within three concentric lines (the central line is pearled) and in the border (B), surrounded on its outer edge by two continuous lines. In the central ground (A): one script line, in relief on dotted ground; in the border (B): one line, engraved. Cursive script.
A - Muḥammad is the Prophet of God محمد نبي الله
B - 'In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. Say: "He is God, One, God the Everlasting Refuge, who has not begotten, and has not been begotten, and no one is equal to him." ' (Qur. CXII) بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قل هو الله احد الله الصمد لم يلد ولم يولد ولم يكن له كفوا احد
On the ground, there are groups of dots (up to five).
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