MAKE A MEME View Large Image ...Walid ibn Abdul-Rahman - Inscribed Pound Weight - Walters 476 - Three Quarter Right.jpg This unusual green glass weight is among the earliest dated Islamic objects other than coins in any American museum In addition to the name al-Walid who ...
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Keywords: Al-Walid ibn Abdul-Rahman - Inscribed Pound Weight - Walters 476 - Three Quarter Right.jpg This unusual green glass weight is among the earliest dated Islamic objects other than coins in any American museum In addition to the name al-Walid who was the financial director of the Damascus treasury the weight's inscription stamped on top in an angular script known as kufic evokes Yazid III a caliph or ruler of the Umayyad Dynasty 661-750 743 Early Medieval glass cm 4 2 7 5 accession number 47 6 11026 Dikran Kelekian New York and Paris by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1914 Inscription Stamped into surface In the name of God He God commands honesty The servant of God Yazid Commander of the Faithful Executed by al-Walid ibn Abd al-Rahman in the year 126 Full ratl The Heritage of Islam Houston Museum of Natural Science Houston; California Academy of Sciences Museum San Francisco; Science Museum of Minnesota St Paul; Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Washington; Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn; Royal Ontario Museum Toronto 1982-1984 place of origin Delhi India <gallery> File Al-Walid ibn Abdul-Rahman - Inscribed Pound Weight - Walters 476 - Top jpg Top File Al-Walid ibn Abdul-Rahman - Inscribed Pound Weight - Walters 476 - Three Quarter Right jpg Three Quarter Right File Al-Walid ibn Abdul-Rahman - Inscribed Pound Weight - Walters 476 - Three Quarter Left jpg Three Quarter Left File Al-Walid ibn Abdul-Rahman - Inscribed Pound Weight - Walters 476 - Side A jpg Side A </gallery> Walters Art Museum license Islamic pound weight in the Walters Art Museum
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