LNS 804 M
Bronze oil lamp with domical lid featuring an openwork plait design, a leaf-shaped spout, and a Kufic inscription wishing ‘Blessing and happiness’ to its owner
LNS 110 M
Brass basin inlaid with silver featuring thuluth inscriptions lauding an (unnamed) officer of al-Malik an-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qala’un (r. 693-741 AH/1293-1341 AD, with interruptions), ogives and roundels with flying ducks, and vegetal motifs; later owner’s inscription, one ‘Abd Allah ibn Ahmad)
LNS 82 M
Bronze candlestick inlaid with copper and silver, with salient rows of ducks and seated lions, and invocations of good wishes to the owner in Kufic script
LNS 104 M
Combined silver folding spoon and fork inlaid with niello, with pious inscriptions in Kufic invoking God, and with vegetal arabesques and representations of simurghs and birds
LNS 1136 M a
Bronze dish in the form of a fish (for the serving of fish?), decorated with winged lions, hares, seven-circle rosettes, flutes and a vegetal arabesque
LNS 1052 M a,b
Reticulated bronze lamp, with: mounted riders hunting with felines and falcons; representations of the twelve signs of the zodiac and the seven planets, all identified by their names; and good wishes to the owner, all in Kufic script
LNS 992 M
Reticulated double-walled bronze bottle with bands of undulating half-palmette scrolls, and a prominent band with good wishes to the owner in Kufic script
LNS 409 M
Bronze incense burner (lid missing) decorated in openwork with scrolling vines, and with handle finial in the form of a poppy fruit
LNS 608 M
Bronze perfume sprinkler decorated with staggered rows of buds
LNS 36 M
Brass planispheric astrolabe (the earliest known Islamic example), signed by Muhammad ibn ‘Abdallah (known as ‘Nastulus’) and dated in Arabic letters (abjad numeration) to 315 AH
