of shallow rectangular form with rounded corners, depicting Moses to the left holding the tables with the Ten Commandments and the High Priest Aharon to the right standing next to a menora, the centre with an altar with the tablets with the Ten Commandments and below worshippers at the Western Wall, above roundels containing the Twelve Tribes, all with identifying Hebrew inscriptions, all within an interlace and trefoil border, the rim with cartouches of Arabic inscription and roundels
37.4 x 47.6 cm.

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Arabic inscriptions: 'izz li-mawlana al-sultan al-malik al-nasir al-murabit/ al-muthaghir almu'ayyad al-mansur al-sultan / al-islam wa al-muslimin qatil al-kufra wa almushrikin muhiyy a[l]-'adl fi'l-'alam[i]n/ ... najir (sic) [mujir] al-mazlum (sic)[al-mazlumin] min / al-zalim[i]n ... al-sultan fi (? sic)/ al-malik al-man suh (sic) [al-mansur] qalaun al-salihi 'azza nasrahu sana 1904 'amal damathq (sic)[damishq],'Glory to our Lord, the Sultan, the Victorious king, the Defender, the Protector the of frontiers, the one helped [by God], the Triumphant, the Sultan of Islam and Muslims, the Slayer of infidels and polytheists, Reviver of justice in the worlds .... Protector of the oppressed against the oppressors .... the Sultan in (?)al-Malik al-Mansur Qalaun, may his victory be glorified. Year 1904, work of Damascus'.

Hebrew inscriptions: the large inscription over the altar, "From the East"; in the roundels, identifying inscriptions for the Twelve Tribes.

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