Ask the Scholar

{
    "localId": "20982",
    "label": "Round Cover, Probably for a Box",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.515"
}

{
    "id": "20982",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.515",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Round Cover, Probably for a Box",
    "description": "The outside is inlayed with a frieze of blessings in nashki script, and the inside depicts a horseman fighting with an eagle. Seated figures appear along the rim.The nashki script shows beautifully developed human-headed writing. [For more on anthropomorphic letters see Adolf Grohmann, \"Anthropomorphic and Zoomorphic Letters in the History of Arabic Writing,\" Bull. de l'institut d'Egypte, 1958, p. 117-122.]",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [from the Hamadan Treasure]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, January 6, 1925, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "12th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.515",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "covers (closures)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_54.515_Fnt_BW_C39.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_54.515_Fnt_BW_C39.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_54.515_Fnt_BW_C39.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 1.7,
            "height": 9.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 11/16 x Diam: 3 11/16 in. (1.7 x 9.4 cm)"
}

{
    "dynasty": "Seljuk Dynasty",
    "RelatedObjects": [
        "27211",
        "40304"
    ],
    "med": "bronze with silver inlay",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3496",
        "6353"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ISL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

{
    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL2_54.515_Fnt_BW_C39.jpg",
    "mediaId": "85a49bb7d655f4cb"
}