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Object NameCup with Inscription

Made FromGlass

Date800-999

Techniquemold-blown, linear-cut

SizeOverall H: 8.8 cm, Diam: 9.1 cm

Accession Number79.1.93

Credit LineBequest of Jerome Strauss

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Place Made

Iran

Physical DescriptionAlmost colorless, with green tinge; very few minute bubbles. Mold-blown; linear-cut. Cup: roughly cylindrical. Rim plain, with bevel on inside; wall straight, tapering slightly, then tapering sharply before curving down and in to bottom; base plain; no pontil mark. Wall has linear decoration (from top to bottom): 2.2–2.7 cm below lip, two continuous horizontal ribs separated by groove; at point where profile changes, one continuous horizontal groove; on lower part and at bottom of curved section, narrow vertical “step.” Underside of base has one line of Kufic inscription intended to be read from the inside: “camal c Ibra¯n” (the work of c Ibra¯n)
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