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Octagonal bezel seal with nasta‘liq inscription
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 14th - 19th century
- Material and technique
- cornelian, cut, bevelled, and incised
- Dimensions
- 1.4 x 1.9 x 0.45 cm (height x width x depth)
- Material index
- Technique index
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cut,
- Object type index
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tool/implement › matrix › seal
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
- Accession no.
- LI1008.113
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Further reading
Kalus, Ludvik, Catalogue of Islamic Seals and Talismans (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), no. 2.2.32 on p. 28, pl. I.2.2.32
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
Cornelian; bezel, bevelled towards the front (but only very slightly); rectangular with cut angles; frontal angle rounded, back angle cut. Two lines of cursive script (nasta`līq), each underlined by the return of the loop of the final yā’.
(1) Receive favourably, God, براور الهى
(2) Muṣṭafā مصطفى
There is a number of short oblong strokes spread over the ground.
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