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Inscribed Pound Weight   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Artist: Anonymous (Syrian)Unknown author
Patron: al-Walid ibn Abdul-Rahman (Syrian)
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Inscribed Pound Weight
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English: This unusual green glass weight is among the earliest dated Islamic objects (other than coins) in any American museum. In addition to the name al-Walid, who was the financial director of the Damascus treasury, the weight's inscription, stamped on top in an angular script known as kufic, evokes Yazid III, a caliph, or ruler, of the Umayyad Dynasty (661-750).
Date 743 (Early Medieval)
Medium glass
medium QS:P186,Q11469
Dimensions height: 4.2 cm (1.6 in); diameter: 7.5 cm (2.9 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,4.2U174728
dimensions QS:P2386,7.5U174728
institution QS:P195,Q210081
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47.6
Place of creation Delhi, India
Object history
Exhibition history The Heritage of Islam. Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston; California Academy of Sciences Museum, San Francisco; Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul; Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. 1982-1984.
Credit line Acquired by Henry Walters, 1914
Inscriptions [Inscription] Stamped into surface: In the name of God. He [God] commands honesty. The servant of God Yazid, Commander of the Faithful. Executed by al-Walid ibn Abd al-Rahman in the year 126. Full ratl.
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