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Octagonal bezel seal with nasta‘liq inscription and floral decoration
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1682 - 1683 (AH 1094)
- Material and technique
- cornelian, cut, bevelled, and incised
- Dimensions
- 1.4 x 1.7 x 0.4 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 Queen's College, University of Oxford.
- Accession no.
- LI902.24
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Further reading
Kalus, Ludvik, Catalogue of Islamic Seals and Talismans (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), no. 2.2.22 on p. 25, pl. I.2.2.22
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; both back and frontal angles slightly cut. Three lines of cursive script (nasta`līq), the first underlined by the return of the loop of the final yā' at the end of the first line; with dots.
(1) Slave of God, Ḥājī بنده خدا حاجى
(2) Abū Bakr b. ابو بكر بن
(3) Aḥmad [10]94[?]/1682-3 احمد ٩٤
There are small schematic flower heads consisting of points, joined to a spiral stem, spread over the ground. Two lines follow the shape of the gem.
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