الموضوع
Amulets
النوع
أخرى
اللغة
غير محدد
رقمي
نعم
مخطوط
لا
الأبعاد الفيزيائية
Diameter: 3.1cm
المكتبة
Victoria and Albert Museum
معرف أصل المكتبة
ME.2-2002
رقم السجل
ME.2-2002
موقع المكتبة
Middle East Section
ملاحظات
In the medieval Middle East, rock crystal and other precious and semi-precious stones were considered to have properties which we would now think of as magical or supernatural. Because of its clarity, rock crystal was believed to have affinities with air and water and was sometimes associated with rain. The inscriptions on this item, which include the name of the prophet Solomon, show that it had a talismanic function of some sort.
نص عينة
Note Inscribed with three lines of text in Arabic, written in a Kufic style (A, B, C on image), which are framed by four lines of 'linear Kufic' script (D, E, F, G on image). Lines A, B and C consist of one word repeated three times. The word in line A is the name Sulayman (Solomon), written in scriptio defectiva , in positive (as opposed to reversed, as on a seal). See image for transcription by Tim Stanley.
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Carved rock crystal Quartz Crystal Carving
Fiziksel açıklama
Carved rock crystal sphere inscribed in Arabic, including talismanic texts in 'linear Kufic' script, on one side.
