Umayyad Caliphate. PB Seal (26.5mm, 34.19 g, 0h). Good Fine.

Keystone 12 – Islamic Coinage
Lot: 138. Estimated: $ 500

Umayyad Caliphate, Lead

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Umayyad Caliphate. PB Seal (26.5mm, 34.19 g, 0h). In four lines: Sukhra / Filastin / al-sud [...] [...] / billah ?. Ibrahim, T. ‘Umayyad Palestine: A lead seal of statute labor’, Manquso 11 (2020). Good Fine. Extremely rare.

The first two words on this seal were read by Ibrahim as sukhra Filastin, meaning ‘statute labor in Filastin.’ His proposal of al-sud, ‘for [building] a dam’, is ingenious and plausible; the suggestion that the final word is something like ‘Ramallah’, split between the third and fourth lines, seems more difficult and the final line on the present piece appears to read simply billah.

Closing Date and Time: 5 July 2023 at 10:45:40 ET.



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