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.
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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