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Lot Essay
The inscriptions are talismanic. One begins "in the name of the Most Great God".
A related talisman is the Zucker Collection, published in Content, D.J.: Islamic Rings and Gems-the Benjamin Zucker Collection, London, 1987, pp.333-4, no. 100. Nine further pieces are in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, and have been published by Kalus,L.: Catalogue des cachets, bulles et talismans islamiques, Paris, 1981, pp.95-99, nos.2.4-2.12. Such talismans contain invocations for rain.
A related talisman is the Zucker Collection, published in Content, D.J.: Islamic Rings and Gems-the Benjamin Zucker Collection, London, 1987, pp.333-4, no. 100. Nine further pieces are in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, and have been published by Kalus,L.: Catalogue des cachets, bulles et talismans islamiques, Paris, 1981, pp.95-99, nos.2.4-2.12. Such talismans contain invocations for rain.