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Arabic and Persian seals and amulets in the British Museum

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Field name	Details
ISBN	0861591607 (pbk.)
ISBN	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.
Series	Research publication (British Museum) 160
Bibliography etc.	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.
Corporate name	British Museum -- Catalogs
Subject	Seals (Numismatics) -- Middle East -- Catalogs
	Seals (Numismatics) -- Iran -- Catalogs
	Amulets -- Middle East -- Catalogs
	Amulets -- Iran -- Catalogs
	Amulets (Islam) -- Catalogs
Subject headings	Islamic seals
Added name(s)	Hoyland, Robert G. 1966-
	Morton, A.H.
	Bhandare, Shailendra
	Ambers, J.
Added name(s) - Corporate	British Museum

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