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Oval bezel seal with nasta‘liq inscription and floral decoration
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1677 - 1678 (AH 1088)
- Material and technique
- jasper, cut, bevelled, and incised
- Dimensions
- 1.5 x 1.85 x 0.35 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
- Presented by the Reverend Greville J. Chester, 1872.
- Accession no.
- EAX.3306
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Further reading
Kalus, Ludvik, Catalogue of Islamic Seals and Talismans (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), no. 2.2.4 on p. 20, pl. I.2.2.4
Chester, Greville J., Catalogue of the Egyptian Antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Parker, 1881), no. 1462 on p. 89
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
Green jasper; bezel, bevelled towards the front (but only very slightly); oval; back angle very slightly cut, frontal angle very slightly rounded. Two lines, of cursive script (nasta`līq); between the two lines, on the right side, there is a date.
(1) His servant عبده
1088/1677-8 ١٠٨٨
(2) Sālim سالم
A branch with stylised flowers and some small flower heads cover the ground schematically. Two concentric lines follow the edge of the gem.
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