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Circular bezel seal with naskhi inscription and plait decoration
- loan
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Details
- Associated place
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Near East (probable place of creation)
- Date
- 14th - 15th century (1301 - 1500)
- Material and technique
- jade, cut, bevelled, and incised
- Dimensions
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0.35 cm (height)
1.65 cm (diameter)
- 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.
- LI902.28
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Further reading
Kalus, Ludvik, Catalogue of Islamic Seals and Talismans (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), no. 2.4.1 on p. 41, pl. I.2.4.1
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
Light green jade; bezel, bevelled towards the back; circular; front angle very slightly rounded. Two lines of cursive script arranged decoratively.
(1) Contentment [?] [قنع [؟
(2) . . . ...
The inscription is surrounded by a frame consisting of plaits.
This seal may be compared with another in a private collection in London, on which the same inscription surrounded by some other inscriptions is inscribed. It could perhaps be attributed to the Golden Horde, 8th/15th century - cf. coins of this dynasty, for example in S. A. Janina, 'Novyj Gorod' ( = Jangi-Shahr = Shehr al-Djedid) - monetnyj dvor Zolotoj Ordy i ego mestopolozhenie, in Numizmaticheskij sbornik, v, 1, Moscow, 1977, pp. 205-6.
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