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Circular plaquette with nasta‘liq inscription and floral decoration
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1698 (AH 1109 - 1110)
- Associated people
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Nathanial Wage (active c. 1698) (named on object)Emperor Aurangzeb (ruled 1657 - 1707) (named on object)
- Material and technique
- copper alloy, incised
- Dimensions
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0.25 cm (height)
3 cm (diameter)
- Material index
- Technique index
- Object type index
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tool/implement › matrix › seal,
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by Christ Church College, University of Oxford.
- Accession no.
- LI897.13
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Further reading
Kalus, Ludvik, Catalogue of Islamic Seals and Talismans (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), no. 3.4 on p. 43, pl. I.3.4
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
Bronze(?); plaquetter; front face slightly rounded; circular. Two lines of cursive script (nasta`līq), with dots. A date in 'Islamic' figures above, a date in 'western' figures beneath.
Year 42 سنة ٤٢
(1) English انكليز
(2) Nathanial Wage [?] ناتانل وايج
1698 1698
On the ground there are small flower heads consisting of three, five, six or seven dots. Two concentric lines follow the shape of the face.
The number 42 indicates the 42nd year of the reign of Mughal Emperor Awrangzīb `Ālamgīr (1068-1119/1658-1707).
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