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Bowl Fragments with Menorah, Shofar, and Torah Ark
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Glass gold leaf, Roman
Medieval Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Rogers Fund 1918
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Small Torah Scroll rolled on silver handles, clothed in a mantle and adorned by a Torah shield
Small Torah Scroll rolled on silver handles, clothed in a mantle and adorned by a Torah shield
Inscribed in Hebrew: on the handles "The teaching of the Lord is perfect, renewing life" (Psalms 19:8-9); on the Torah shield "Shadai"...
Bowl with Palmettes and Rosettes
Bowl with Palmettes and Rosettes
In profile, this bowl has straight, flaring sides and a low foot ring. The reddish ceramic fabric is completely covered in whitish slip, and the decoration is painted in red, purpl...
Bowl with Radial Foliate Design
Bowl with Radial Foliate Design
The interior of this bowl is divided into eight equal sections by lines, embellished with dots and twining tendrils, that spring from triangular arabesques and terminate with pairs...
Bowl Inscribed with Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad and 'Ali ibn Abi Talib
Bowl Inscribed with Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad and 'Ali ibn Abi Talib
With its pure white slip, precise calligraphy, and perfectly clear glaze, this deep-walled bowl embodies the finest qualities of Samanid epigraphic wares. Most surviving examples o...
Bowl with Harpies
Bowl with Harpies
In the center of this bowl two harpies (composite bird-women) are turned toward each other, their tail feathers joining overhead in an ogival arch. In Islamic lands these mythical ...
Fragmentary Bowl
Fragmentary Bowl
This bowl is a modern pastiche, pieced together from fragments of eleven different vessels, all probably dating to the Samanid period. The reconstruction has given the bowl an unch...
Fragmentary Bowl with Inscription
Fragmentary Bowl with Inscription
The inscription painted around the rim of this fragmentary bowl has thus far defied reading. It is possible that the many sherds from which the bowl was reconstructed before Norma ...