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"inscription": "[daygha]m wa-kam asadan rawwa'a juhur kilab aya asadan fi jismihi ruh. . .",
"inscription_translation": "Left vertical band: \n. . .[lio]n. And how many lions have reflected upon the baying [literally: loud voices] of dogs! Oh lion, in his [i.e., the dog's] body is the spirit. . .",
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"inscription": ". . .aya asadan fi jismihi ruh daygham wa-kam asadan rawwa'a [ju]hur kilab aya asadan fi. . .",
"inscription_translation": "Right vertical band: . . .Oh lion, in his body is the spirit of a lion. And how many lions have reflected upon the [ba]ying of the dogs! Oh lion in . . .",
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"inscription": "inni i'taqadtu bi-wa'idka wa-'adlika",
"inscription_translation": "Center panel cartouches. Top line (retrograde): I am convinced of what Thou hast threatened and of Thy justice.",
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"inscription": "wa-arhab ihsanika [wa-fad]lika",
"inscription_translation": "Center panel cartouches. Bottom line (retrograde): And of Thy most ample well-doing and grace.",
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"description": "(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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"description": "This fragment preserves a wide central band flanked by narrower inscription bands. The narrower bands contain, on a dark blue background a continuous inscription in elaborate Kufic, the ivory-colored lettering oriented at right angles to the warp. On the wider ivory panel there appear ovals enclosing a frieze of running animals within which are hexagons enclosing stars. The ovals alternate vertically with cartouches containing an inscription in simple Kufic, the design appearing in blue, pink, and ivory.",
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"citation": "Blair, Sheila S., Jonathan M. Bloom, and Anne E. Wardwell. \"Reevaluating the Date of the \"Buyid\" Silks by Epigraphic and Radiocarbon Analysis.\" Ars Orientalis 22 (1992): 1-41.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 34; Mentioned: p. 15",
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"citation": "Mackie, Louise W. Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015.",
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