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Octagonal bezel seal with nasta‘liq inscription, leaf, and star decoration

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Iran (possible place of creation)
    Date
    1842 - 1843 (AH 1258)
    Material and technique
    jade, cut and incised
    Dimensions
    1.4 x 1.5 x 0.3 cm (height x width x depth)
    Material index
    jade,
    jade,
    jade
    Technique index
    cut,
    incised,
    incised
    Object type index
    seal,
    gem,
    seal,
    seal
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Iain C. G. Campbell, 1980.
    Accession no.
    EA1980.6

  • Further reading

    Kalus, Ludvik, Catalogue of Islamic Seals and Talismans (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), no. 2.2.21 on p. 25, pl. I.2.2.21

Location

    • currently in research collection

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Publications online

  • Islamic Seals and Talismans by Ludvik Kalus

    Catalogue of Islamic Seals and Talismans

    Green jade; bezel, mostly unbevelled; rectangular with cut angles; both angles cut (but the back one only partly). Ensemble of four levels of cursive script (nasta`līq), with dots. A date beneath.

    Slave of God Ibrāhīm [1]258/1842-3 بنده
    خدا
    ابرا
    هيم
    ٢٥٨

    Two small branches and one six-pointed star representing a schematic flower head are spread over the ground.

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