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Mamluk-Style Lidded Casket with Qur’anic Inscriptions

Arts of the Islamic World

MEDIUM Copper alloy, engraved and inlaid with silver
DATES 19th-20th century
PERIOD Modern
DIMENSIONS H. (including legs): 6 in. (15.2 cm) W.: 8 1/4 in. (21 cm)  (show scale)
INSCRIPTIONS In Arabic, Qur'an 2:255, Sura al-Baqara (Verse of the Cow): "الله لا إله إلا هو الحي القيوم لا تأخذه سنة ولا نوم له ما في" Read by Abdullah Ghouchani
ACCESSION NUMBER 66.24.13
CREDIT LINE Gift of Ruth Friedman
MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view
CAPTION Mamluk-Style Lidded Casket with Qur’anic Inscriptions, 19th-20th century. Copper alloy, engraved and inlaid with silver, H. (including legs): 6 in. (15.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Ruth Friedman, 66.24.13. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 66.24.13_three_quarter_PS11.jpg)
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 <em>Mamluk-Style Lidded Casket with Qur’anic Inscriptions</em>, 19th-20th century. Copper alloy, engraved and inlaid with silver, H. (including legs): 6 in. (15.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Ruth Friedman, 66.24.13. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 66.24.13_three_quarter_PS11.jpg)

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