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Arabic and Persian seals and amulets in the British Museum
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Catalogue Record 16130
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0861591607 (pbk.)
9780861591602 (pbk.)
Author
Porter, Venetia
Title
Arabic and Persian seals and amulets in the British Museum / [by] Venetia Porter ; with special assistance from Robert Hoyland and Alexander Morton ; with contributions from Shailendra Bhandare, and scientific analysis by Janet Ambers ... [et al.]
Publisher
London : British Museum, 2011
Physical desc.
viii, 202 p. ; ill. (chiefly col.) ; 30 cm.
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Research publication (British Museum)
160
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Includes bibliographical references and concordances.
Contents
Introduction. Seal practice in the Islamic world -- The dīwān al-khātim: the 'office of the seal' and the Sasanian legacy -- Seals of the caliphs as described by medieval authors -- Early Islamic lead and bronze seals: form and function -- The terms 'kūra' and 'iqlīm' -- Seals on Arabic papyri and clay discs -- Personal seals: literary references -- Figural representation on early seals -- From the tenth century: the 'alāma and ink seals -- The Safavid period: seal impressions, royal and personal seals -- Indo-Muslim seals of the seventeenth-nineteenth centuries -- Seal practice under the Ottomans -- Forgery -- Seal engravers -- Parallels between coins and seals -- Seals and amulets from archaeological sites -- Style and content of the early seals -- Later seals -- Scope and arrangement of the catalogue -- The British Museum collection -- Table 1: Epigraphic styles on seals -- Table 2: Ornamentation -- Table 3: Shapes and mounts -- Clay bronze and lead sealings c. eighth-tenth centuries -- Names -- Names and phrases -- Phrases -- Re-engraved seals and seals with Arabic inscriptions on both sides -- Seals c. fourteenth century and later -- Dated seals -- Indo-Muslim and miscellaneous seals -- Amulets: introduction -- Table 4: The Abjad system -- Table 5: The names of God -- Table 6: The Fourteen Immaculates -- Catalogue of amulets -- Identification of the materials of the seals and amulets / Sylvia Humphrey and Janet Ambers -- Methods of engraving / Margaret Sax and Nigel Meeks.
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British Museum -- Catalogs
Subject
Seals (Numismatics) -- Middle East -- Catalogs
Seals (Numismatics) -- Iran -- Catalogs
Amulets -- Middle East -- Catalogs
Amulets -- Iran -- Catalogs
Amulets (Islam) -- Catalogs
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Islamic seals
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Hoyland, Robert G. 1966-
Morton, A.H.
Bhandare, Shailendra
Ambers, J.
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