The Haram at Mecca

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The Haram at Mecca
India, AH 1194/1780 AD

gouache and ink on buff paper, painted in red, ochre, brown and grey as if from above, showing the walls, minarets and other features around the Kaaba, each structure labelled including the various gates, (some smudging, staining and flaking), mounted on paper with six lines of black naskh below, witnessed and dated 1194, mounted, framed and glazed
painting 17½ x 13in. (44.5 x 33cm.)
leaf 21 x 13in. (53.3 x 33cm.)

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The inscription below seems to have been added slightly later. It records the completion of the Hajj and details of all stages of it, by 'Abd al-Rahim b. Shaikh 'Umar, and Indian who settled in Nayir(?). It is dated 9 Dhu'l-Hijja AH 1194/7 December 1780 AD in Mecca. The signatures of the witnesses, however, Agha Zamarrud, Yahya b. Ahmad Fadil Zamzami, Agha Jawahir and Agha Almas appear to all be in the same hand. The names of the three Aghas curiously translate as ruby, gems and diamond and are very possibly later additions.

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