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Oval bezel seal with nasta‘liq inscription, spiral, and floral decoration
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 14th - 20th century
- Material and technique
- jade, incised
- Dimensions
- 1.4 x 1.55 x 0.2 cm (height x width x depth)
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tool/implement › matrix › seal,
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Iain C. G. Campbell, 1980.
- Accession no.
- EA1980.12
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Further reading
Kalus, Ludvik, Catalogue of Islamic Seals and Talismans (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), no. 2.2.39 on pp. 30-31, pl. I.2.2.39
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Catalogue of Islamic Seals and Talismans
Green jade; bezel, unbevelled; oval. Three lines of cursive script (nasta`līq), with dots. The first line is underlined by the return of the loop of the final yā’, the second line by elongation of a ligature.
(1) Give us, God, بده مارا الهى
(2) eternal life through the truth عمر سرمد بحق
(3) of the seal [or love] of Muḥammad مهر محمد
There are dense spiral stems with a great number of schematic floral endings spread over the ground.
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