LNS 3 HS
Rock crystal bottle, relief-carved on both faces with a stylised ‘tree of life’ bearing half palmettes
LNS 43 HS
Rock crystal bottle, relief-carved with good wishes to the owner in Kufic script. The bottle probably served as a reliquary and was fitted in the 16th-century with Spanish gilded silver mounts inscribed: ‘In hoc signo vinces’, and engraved with the coats of arms of Barba de Campos de Castrofuerte of Castille, Santillan of Castille, Tello Barba Sandoval Santillan, and Tello of Castille
LNS 1 HS a, d, e, g, h, i
Rock crystal chess pieces from two different sets, relief-carved with palmettes and half-palmettes (a, h, and i from one set; and d, e, and g from another), the pieces consist of:
(a) Shah (the king), the ultimate origin of the shape is thought to be a royal howdah on the back of an elephant
LNS 1 S
Marble capital carved in a form derived from the Corinthian order, with an inscription in Kufic script giving the name of the stone carver (Shukr the young slave or fata), its date of manufacture, and invoking blessings on the patron, the Spanish Umayyad Caliph ‘Abd Allah al-Hakam al-Mustansir bi-’llah (r. 350 – 366 AH/961-976 AD)
LNS 160 S
Basalt tombstone of a certain Rizq ibn ‘Abdallah
LNS 65 S e
Limestone niche from the Audience Hall of the Citadel Complex of Amman, probably built during the reign of the Umayyad Caliph Hisham bn Abd al-Malik, between 724 and 743 AD
LNS 219 T
Fragment from a linen robe with a tiraz inscription invoking God’s blessings on the caliph (probably the Abbasid caliph Ja‘far al-Muqtadir, (r. 295-317 AH/908-929 AD with interruption)
LNS 1094 T
Cotton shawl embroidered with vegetal designs and a lover’s lament in Persian language (naskhi script) mentioning the city of Bamyan, in Afghanistan
LNS 443 T
Silk panel from a garment with pairs of sphinxes, and a repetition of the word ‘glory’ in Kufic script along the upper edge
LNS 34 T
Fragmentary silk textile composed as a series of horizontal bands, alternating between naskhi inscriptions in cartouches (‘Everlasting happiness and steadfast glory [to its owner]’), quadrupeds, angular guilloches, and medallions with geometric star roundels on a ground of half-palmette designs
