A group of Islamic glass Weights and Seals Egypt or Syria, 9th/10th Century (12)
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Egypt or Syria, 9th/10th Century
Egypt or Syria, 9th/10th Century
the largest 3 cm. diam.(12)
Footnotes
For Fatimid examples, see Tresors Fatimides du Caire, Exhibition Catalogue, Institutes du Monde Arabe, Paris, 1998, nos. 176-180; for Umayyad and Abbasid, see A. H. Morton, A Catalogue of Early Islamic Glass Stamps in the British Museum, London, 1985.
These coins-weights belongs to a series of weights based on the gold dinar (4.25 g.) or the silver dirham (2.97 g.) produced in Egypt from the 7th to 15th Centuries.
For a full discussion of these objects see A. H. Morton, A Catalogue of Early Islamic Glass Stamps in the British Museum, London 1985. A similar group was sold in these rooms (Bonhams, London, Islamic and Indian Art, 16th October 2003, lot 302).