Browse Items (3 total)
- Collection: MST201 - Lenander
Sort by:
Lenander - Inscribed Seal
Jet gemstone inscribed with a seal translated to "Rely on God" or "Ali trusts in God" (translated by The MET). Seals inscribed in stone or other materials were often placed on rings and used as signatures or talismans for the protection of the owner…
Lenander - Seal Ring with the name of Hajji Muhammad ibn Mahmud
A Silver and Lapis-Lazuli seal ring. Seal rings or signet rings are rings engraved with text in reverse that were used to stamp text into seals like a signature and may have also "functioned as talismans used to protect their owners from harm" (The…
Lenander - Illustration of The Story of the Fisherman from the Arabian Nights
A woodcut engraving illustrated by William Harvey showing the scene "The Story of the Fisherman" for the 1912 book titled "The Thousand and One Nights: Commonly called, in England The Arabian Nights' Entertainments" by Edward William Lane. The…