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Square amulet ring inscribed with Arabic letters
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia (Middle East) (place of creation)
- Date
- 16th - 20th century (1501 - 2000)
- Material and technique
- gold, incised
- Dimensions
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ring 2 x 1.8 x 1.2 cm (height x width x depth)
internal 1.6 cm (diameter)
band 0.5 cm (width)
7 g (weight)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by Christ Church College, University of Oxford.
- Accession no.
- LI897.7
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Further reading
Kalus, Ludvik, Catalogue of Islamic Seals and Talismans (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), no. 1.85 on p. 91, pl. II.1.85
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
Gold ring with an enlarged square face; plain. The ground is divided by three horizontal and three vertical lines, crossed, forming sixteen compartments. These compartments contain the same characters in every horizontal and vertical row, but the order of these characters is different. Cursive script; engraved.
Ḥ W Y Ṭ ح و ى ط
Y Ṭ Ḥ W ى ط ح و
Ṭ Y W Ḥ ط ى و ح
W Ḥ Ṭ Y و ح ط ى
One line follows the shape of the script face.
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