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"inscription": "[bottom]: \". . . [the Compassiona]te [?]. Praise be to God, Lord of the worlds and the wor[lds?].\" [top]: \". . . command and glory and power and good fortune and . . . peace and command and command [one word garbled].\"",
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"description": "One of the stories in \"The Thousand and One Nights\" is of a slave girl named Zumurud who lived in Khurasan and embroidered curtains with designs of animals and birds in colored silk and gold threads. Sumptuous embroideries were not only commissioned by rulers, caliphs, and court officials but also widely exported. Today, less than a dozen fragments of these rich embroideries survive. All are worked on \"mulham,\" a fabric having silk warps and cotton wefts that was a specialty of Iran and Iraq. With the exception of the Cleveland Museum of Art's fragment CMA 1952.257, which was found in Baghdad, all of the known examples were preserved until the 1900s in Egyptian graves and refuse heaps.",
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