Love Token

In the tragic romance between Layla and Qays (later known as majnun—“mad” or “possessed”), the two met and fell in love as schoolchildren. Layla’s father rejected Qays’s marriage p...

Lathe-turned bone disk, perhaps a spindle whorl, game token, or furniture decoration. Around the edge and central hole are a series of concentric bands. The disc is domed on one si...

A pastoral scene with shepherd playing a flute, cattle and a dog, by a stream and tree; the rising sun shines on the planet Jupiter....

A crescent moon amidst a starry sky, over a rural landscape....

Bees swarm from one hive, over a stream, to another....