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Mosque lamp. Mamluk dynasty, about AD 1350-55 From Cairo, Egypt. The lamp is also decorated with a bold inscription frieze containing the name and titles of Sayf al-Din Shaykhu al-Nasiri, and his heraldic device incorporating a red cup appears in the centre of the roundels on the neck and the underside of the lamp.

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Mosque lamp. Mamluk dynasty, about AD 1350-55 From Cairo, Egypt. The lamp is also decorated with a bold inscription frieze containing the name and titles of Sayf al-Din Shaykhu al-Nasiri, and his heraldic device incorporating a red cup appears in the centre of the roundels on the neck and the underside of the lamp.

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Album / Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group

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3200 x 5558 px | 50.9 MB

Print size:

27.1 x 47.1 cm | 10.7 x 18.5 in (300 dpi)

Keywords:

1350-55 • AD • AL-DIN • AL-NASIRI • ALPHABET • BOLD • CAIRO • CAIRO, EGYPT • CENTRE • CONTAINING • CUP • DECORATED • DEDICATION • DEVICE • DYNASTY • EGYPT • EGYPTE • EGYPTIAN • EGYPTIANS • EPIGRAPH • EPITAPH • FRIEZE • FRISO • HERALDIC • INCORPORATING • INSCRIPTION • ISLAMIC ART • LAMP • LAMPS • LEGEND • LIGHT • MAMLUK • MEZQUITA • MOSQUE • MOSQUES • NAME • NECK • NECKS • RED (COLOUR) • RED • REGISTRATION • ROUNDELS • SAYF • SHAYKHU • THROAT • TITLES • UNDERSIDE • WRITING