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Glass bottle with kufic inscription of good wishesgroup

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Glass bottle with kufic inscription of good wishes

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › Iran (place of creation)
    Date
    11th - 12th century (1001 - 1200)
    Material and technique
    glass, mould blown, with trailed decoration
    Dimensions
    19 cm (height)
    7.9 cm (diameter)
    Material index
    processed material › glass
    Technique index
    moulded,
    formed › moulded
    Object type index
    container › vessel › bottle
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Bomford Gift, 1976.
    Accession no.
    EA1976.133

  • Further reading

    Newby, Martine S., Glass of Four Millennia, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000), no. 28 on p. 36, illus. p. 37 fig. 28

Glossary

kufic

  • kufic

    A term denoting various styles of angular Arabic script. Emerged in the early centuries of Islam, kufic soon became the preferred hand to copy holy texts.

Location

    • currently in research collection

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