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| Period: |
Islamic Fourteenth Century |
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| Museum: | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, United States Inventory #:39.20 | ||||||
| Location Note: | Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939 | ||||||
| Material: | Mosaic of monochrome-glaze tiles on frit body; set into plaster | ||||||
| Date: | 1354–55 | ||||||
| Inscription: | (In Arabic; on outer border): Qur'an, ch. IX, v. 18-22. (In Arabic, on border of niche): "Said [the Prophet] on him be blessing and peace: . . . witness that there is no God save Allah and that Muhammad is his Apostle and the Blessed Imam, and in legal a | ||||||
| Vendor: | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | ||||||