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Historical Archive: Arabic Inscriptions Gold dinar of Caliph 'Abd al-Malik, Damascus 696-97, DO. This work has its own page. stamped glass ring weight, Abbasid Egypt 781-792, KM 1964.02.0044 stamped glass ring weight, Abbasid Egypt 781-792, KM 1964.02.0044 water strainer with epigraphic design, ceramic, 10th c. Fustat, Egypt, KM 1971.01.0021 al-Muqtadir bi-Ilah (Abbasid caliph 908-32), gold donation dinar 916-17, Hermitage OH-B-Aз-5153 bronze griffin, Spain(?), 11thc., Opera Pisa. This work has its own page. carnelian seal in bronze, Egypt 1021-36, Hermitage CA-13662 "Shroud of St. Potentien" with Kufic inscription, silk, 12th c. Islamic, Sens CT. This work has its own page. Talismanic brass plaque, prob. Egypt 12th-15th c.: demon, symbols, nonsense inscription. BM anthropomorphic and zoomorphic Naskh script: Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahid and Hajib Mas'ud ibn Ahmad: Bobrinsky bucket, bronze with silver and copper, Afghanistan, 1163, Hermitage IR-2268. This work has its own page. interwoven Kufic script: Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahid and Hajib Mas'ud ibn Ahmad: Bobrinsky bucket, bronze with silver and copper, Afghanistan, 1163, Hermitage IR-2268. This work has its own page. dogs weaving through Naskh letters with human faces: Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahid and Hajib Mas'ud ibn Ahmad: Bobrinsky bucket, bronze with silver and copper, Afghanistan, 1163, Hermitage IR-2268. This work has its own page. beaker with polo players, enamelled and gilded blown glass, Syria, mid 13th c., Louvre OA 6131. This work has its own page. Ivory box with Arabic inscription in tuluth script, late 13th-early 14th c. Spain or Egypt, Sens CT TC.C'5. For other views see Sens. signature of artist in naskh script: Muhammad ibn al-Zayn, Baptistère de Saint Louis, Egypt or Syria c.1330-40, Louvre LP16. This work has its own page. Mosque lamp, gilded and enamelled glass, Egypt c.1330-45, BM 1869,0624.2. This work has its own page. mosque lamp of Sultan Hasan, gilded and enameled glass c.1360, Freer F1957.19, which has its own page writing board for Islamic school, wood, Egbira people in Nigeria 1960-75; IMA, lent by Children's Museum of Indianapolis 88.242.1 [F25a6] TR 9401/1