LNS 13 S
Stucco architectural panel (from a dado), with a section from the infinite pattern of regular six-pointed stars and hexagons (equilateral triangle plan of repetition), with subtly and beautifully carved foliate and floral motifs inside the compartments
LNS 4 S
Marble tombstone with Kufic inscription giving the name and patronymics of the lady Umm al-Futuh bint al-Qa’id Lu’lu’, and the month of Sha‘ban 547 AH/November – December 1152 AD as the date of her death. The last line states that it is the tombstone of Amir Muhanna and his wife.
LNS 27 S
Marble architectural panel featuring a fragmentary elaborate and mannered ‘archaizing’ Kufic inscription with ‘the great, the noble’, perhaps part of the foundation inscription of a religious school or a tomb
LNS 231 S
Sandstone architectural crenellation element of foliate form, relief-carved with a bilaterally symmetrical foliate composition issuing from a half-rosette, and two roundels with the word ‘Allah’ (God)
LNS 183 S
Schist cenotaph of Prince Shams al-Milla wa ‘d-Din Muhammad, son of Nizam ad-Din Wali Beg, with inscriptions in thuluth (Persian and Arabic) and Kufic (Arabic) scripts, and with squinches, interlaces and floral decoration
LNS 129 S
Limestone tombstone in the form of an architectural niche with muqarnas squinches and inscriptions in naskhi script (the inner rectangular frame with Chapter 112 of the Qur’an, and the lower part identifying the tomb as that of Shaykh Zad Muhammad bn Muhammad and giving the date of his death). The upper part of the inner niche filled with an infinite-repetition geometric star pattern (triangle plan of repetition, six-pointed stars and other polygons)
LNS 15 R
Woollen “Shrub” carpet, the field of horizontal orientation, both the field and border with rows of a variety of flowering plants (those of the field staggered, those of the border forming a single straight line)
LNS 10 R
Pile carpet laid out as a four-section garden (Persian, chahar bagh) with representations of flowering trees and flower beds, divided by water channels, and with a central pond with four peacocks
LNS 114 T
Talismanic shirt with decorative roundels, escutcheons and a cartouche filled with pious inscriptions in naskhi and attenuated thuluth, square compartments with the complete text of the Qur’an, and borders with the ninety-nine ‘Beautiful Names’ (al-Asma’ al-Husna) of God
LNS 27 R
Fragmentary multiple-niche pile prayer carpet (saff), the lower fields of the niches with a dense composition of two systems of foliated scrolls, the spandrels of the niches with a composition of half-palmettes and flowers on spiralling stems; preserved main border with an alternation of cartouches and four-lobed compartments filled with floral and half-palmette arabesques
