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Octagonal bezel seal with nasta‘liq inscription
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 14th - 20th century
- Material and technique
- lapis lazuli, cut, bevelled, and incised
- Dimensions
- 1.3 x 1.5 x 0.4 cm (height x width x depth)
- Material index
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inorganic › mineral › lapis lazuli,inorganic › mineral › gemstone › lapis lazuli,inorganic › stone › gemstone › lapis lazuli
- 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.
- LI902.25
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Further reading
Kalus, Ludvik, Catalogue of Islamic Seals and Talismans (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), no. 2.2.35 on p. 29, pl. I.2.2.35
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
Lapis-lazuli; bezel, double bevelled (but very irregular); rectangular with cut angles; frontal angle rounded. Four lines of cursive script (nasta`līq), without dots.
(1) Make easy, سهل
(2) Lord, رب
(3) the affairs of Ḥājī امور حاجى
(4) Muḥammad محمد
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