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Slip-painted bowl with Kufic inscription
unknown10th century
Royal Ontario Museum
Toronto, Canada
Like the graphics artists of today, historic calligraphers played with the Arabic script to make it form patterns. Here the words form a pinwheel with the tall letters "A" and "L" forming spokes. The inscription says: "Eat from it that which is nourishing."
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Details
- Title: Slip-painted bowl with Kufic inscription
- Creator: unknown
- Date: 10th century
- Location: Samarqand, Uzbekistan
- Physical Dimensions: h10.9 cm
- Type: Bowl
- Rights: Royal Ontario Museum
- Medium: Ceramic (earthenware), with manganese-black slip-paint and colourless lead glaze
- Time period: Samanid dynasty
- Accession Number: 961.119.3
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