Lot of nine discs and medallion including : - Lot 305

Lot 305
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Result : 192EUR
Lot of nine discs and medallion including : - Lot 305
Lot of nine discs and medallion including : - Disc with bifacial decoration. Obverse: stylized peacock. Reverse: face. Grey glass paste. Egypt or Syria, 6th - 8th century. Maximum diameter : 2,1 cm. Weight : 3,1 gr. - Disc decorated with a seated figure wearing a turban. Dark blue glass. Central Asia, 12th century ? Max. diameter : 2,4 cm. weight : 4,3 gr. - Medallion decorated with dots and circles. Brown glass. Egypt or Syria, 10th - 12th century. Max. length : 3,7 cm, weight : 8,1 gr. - Disc stamped with two lines in a circle (not deciphered). Eggplant glass paste. Islamic period. Maximum diameter : 1,6 cm, weight : 1,5 gr. - Disc with very worn relief. The inscription is illegible but the color and dimensions link the object to the Fatimid discs. Green glass. Egypt, Fatimid period, end of the 10th - middle of the 12th century. Maximum diameter : 1,8 cm. Weight : 1,9 cm. - Stamped disc. Pinkish glass. Irisation. Egypt, Probably Fatimid period, late 10th - mid 12th century. Maximum diameter: 1,6 cm, Weight: 1,4 gr. - Stamped disc decorated with a swirling inscription in cursive characters: "the year () and twenty. Dark blue glass. Egypt, Mamluk period, second half of the 13th - beginning of the 16th century. Maximum diameter: 2,2 cm, Weight : 2,7 cm. - Disc stamped with the name of the caliph al-Mustansir, decorated with an inscription on three lines "the imam Maad Abu Tamim al Mustansir billa, prince of the believers". Green-blue glass. Egypt, Fatimid period, al-Mustansir (1036-1094) Diameter : 2,4 cm, Weight : 2,8 gr. - Stamped disc inscribed with four lines in pseudo-kufic. Eggplant glass paste. Egypt, Fatimid period, late 10th - early 12th century. Maximum diameter : 2,1 cm, Weight : 2,7 gr. Published in R. de Wilde, Weights, Scales and Pawns of Ancient Civilizations, 2017
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