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Related content for the world culture "Islamic Middle East"
Related galleries
Room 34: The Islamic world
Related highlight objects
100 qurush note
A lion attacking a deer, stencilled scene of découpage paper shapes
Anthony Van Dyck, a study for the costume of Robert Shirley
Basalt tombstone of cIsa b. Ahmad al-cAkki
Brass basin inlaid with silver and gold
Brass candlestick inlaid with silver and gold
Brass lamp on a stand
Brass tankard
Bronze coin of Fakhr al-Din Qara Arslan
Bronze coin of Satakarni
Carved jade terrapin
Ceramic bowl with glazed relief
Ceramic tombstone of Jalal al-Din cAbd al-Malik
Chinese style ceramic dish from Iran
Chinese style Iranian dish with dandy
Colourless glass flask
Condiment tray
Copper plate with inscription
Coptic ostrakon
Countermarked silver abbasi coin of Shah Abbas II
Decorated footed basin
Dinar of Abdallah al-Musta'sim
Dinar of Sultan Al-Malik al-Zahir Baybars
Dinar of the Fatimid dynasty
Dinars of Toghril Beg and Malik Shah
Dish with stamped decoration
Dominicus Custos, a bust portrait of Shah Abbas I
Double dirham of Nuh b. Mansur
Earthenware bowl with kufic inscription
Enamelled glass mosque lamp, by Philippe Joseph Brocard
Engraved sheet brass tray, inlaid with silver
Ewer with dragon-headed spout
Fragments of a yellowish glass flask
Fritware bowl, painted with an enthroned ruler and his attendants
Gilded silver pieces from a belt
Glass beaker with gold and red enamel
Gold ashrafi coin of Fath cAli Shah
Gold ashrafi coin of Süleyman the Magnificent
Gold dinar coin
Gold dinar of caliph Abd al-Malik
Gold dinar of Harun al-Rashid
Gold dinar with a standing caliph
Gold mohur (coin) of Shah Jahangir, with his portrait
Gold pendant with inset enamel decoration
Gold tanka of Sultan Qutb al-Din Mubarak Shah I
Green glass huqqa base
Headstall (bridle)
High-spouted brass ewer
Humayun's garden party, a painting in gouache and gold on cotton
Ivory chess pieces
Jade cup of Ulugh Beg
Knife
Lacquer chest with weights and scales, for weighing jewellery
Lacquer pen-case, signed by the artist Ashraf ibn Riza
Larin of Shah Tahmasp
Leather bookbinding with stamped and gilded decoration
Lidded bowl
Limestone relief panel, showing Kai Khosrau
Lustre painted bowl
Lustre-painted ceramic tiles
Lustre-painted pottery jar
Mir Afzal of Tun, A reclining woman and her lapdog, a painting
Money hat
Mosque lamp
Mosque lamp-
Moulded stucco plaque
Muhammad Qasim (attributed to), A picnic at night, a drawing
Objects from the Nihavand find
One riyal coin of King Faisal of Iraq and a 100 fils coin of Kuwait
Page from a manuscript of Dioscorides' De Materia Medica
Painting of a horse and groom, inscribed ‘Riza drew it’
Painting of an old pilgrim by an anonymous artist
Painting of Shah Abbas, Khan Alam and a page
Pen-box
Portrait of a young page reading
Portrait of Shah Abbas hawking
Portrait of Shah Abbas I of Iran, attributed to Bishn Das
Pouring vessel, by the craftsman Mahmu Micmar-i Yazdi
Relief cut glass tumbler
Riza-yi 'Abbasi, Seated calligrapher, a drawing
Rock crystal bottle in the form of a lion
Sequin of Mahmud I
Silver Abbasi coin of the Safavid Dynasty
Silver coin of Gautamiputra Satakarni
Silver dirham coin
Silver dirham coin
Silver dirham of al-Hajjaj b. Yusuf
Silver dirham of Saladin
Silver hoard from Goldsborough
Silver medallion
Slip-painted earthenware bowl
Stonepaste bottle, painted in lustre with seated figures and prowling animals
Stonepaste cup in the shape of a harpy
Stonepaste 'Golden Horn' bottle
Sultan Muhammad (attributed to), Rustam sleeps while Rakhsh fights off a lion, a painting in gouache on paper
Tankard decorated with the signs of the zodiac and the planet Lords
The Cuerdale hoard
The death of the hero Rustam and his horse Rakhsh, a painting in gouache on paper
The Medici Valencian vase
The Queen of Sheba (Bilqis) and the hoopoe, Solomon's messenger, a drawing
The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence, a page from a manuscript
Treasure of the Salcombe Cannon Site
Two jade bases for a huqqa pipe
Yellowish glass flask
Related themes
Introduction to the Leaders and rulers theme
Leaders and rulers
Time
Related tours
Arabic Script: Mightier than the Sword
Iran before Islam: The Sasanians
The kingdoms of ancient South Arabia
The Queen of Sheba
Word into art
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