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Jan 18, 2013

Mirror with Addorsed Sphinxes

1200s

Eastern Anatolia or Northern Mesopotamia

Cast bronze with relief decoration

Diameter: 10.6 cm (4 3/16 in.); Overall: 0.9 x 0.3 cm (3/8 x 1/8 in.); Rim: 0.4 cm (3/16 in.)

Weight: 160 g (5.64 oz.)

Gift of Drs. Thomas and Martha Carter in Honor of Sherman E. Lee 1995.402

Location

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Inscription

Arabic inscription in degenerate floriated angular script around rim. Inscription is poorly written, but is identical to that on mirrors in Kuwait al-Sabah Collection (LNS102M) and Musée des Arts Decoratifs (14918). Translation (from M. Jenkins, "The al-Sabah Collection," 1983, p. 69): Glory and continence and good fortune and splendor and high position and praise and happiness and nobility and power and increase and potency and blessings to its owner forever.

Provenance

?–1995

Thomas and Martha Carter, Madison, WI, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1995–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Mackie, Louise W. Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century. Cleveland, OH; New Haven, CT: The Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015. Reproduced: P. 151, fig. 4.23; Mentioned: P. 33, 151

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Mirror with Addorsed Sphinxes

Mirror with Addorsed Sphinxes

Eastern Anatolia or Northern Mesopotamia

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