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Source Description
This green glass weight is among the earliest dated Islamic objects (other than coins) in any American museum. The inscription, stamped into the weight when the glass was semi-molten, gives the name of Yazid III, a caliph (ruler) of the Umayyad dynasty (661–750). It also states that “God commands honesty,” an appropriate sentiment for its function as a weight used to measure coins made of precious materials like gold, silver, or copper.
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11026
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Inscribed Pound Weight
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Inscribed Pound Weight
description
This green glass weight is among the earliest dated Islamic objects (other than coins) in any American museum. The inscription, stamped into the weight when the glass was semi-molten, gives the name of Yazid III, a caliph (ruler) of the Umayyad dynasty (661–750). It also states that “God commands honesty,” an appropriate sentiment for its function as a weight used to measure coins made of precious materials like gold, silver, or copper.
provenance
Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914, by purchase; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
date
126 AH/AD 743 (Early Medieval)
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cm
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4.2
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7.5
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H: 1 5/8 x Diam: 2 15/16 in. (4.2 x 7.5 cm)
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[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.
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Umayyad Dynasty
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Yazid III (AD 704-744)
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