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Related content for the gallery "Room 34: The Islamic world"
Related Childrens tour
Sudan: ancient treasures
Related galleries
Room 52: Ancient Iran
Room 53: Ancient South Arabia
Room 54: Ancient Turkey
Related highlight objects
Astrolabic quadrant, made by Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Mizzi
Backscratcher
Basalt tombstone of cIsa b. Ahmad al-cAkki
Brass basin inlaid with silver and gold
Brass geomantic instrument, made by Muhammad ibn Khutlukh al-Mawsili
Brass lamp on a stand
Bronze coin of Fakhr al-Din Qara Arslan
Cast brass pen-box made by Mahmud ibn Sunqur
Ceramic bowl with glazed relief
Ceramic tombstone of Jalal al-Din cAbd al-Malik
Colourless glass flask
Condiment tray
Decorated footed basin
Dirham of Kai Khosrau II
Dish with stamped decoration
Earthenware bowl with kufic inscription
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 dinar of caliph Abd al-Malik
Gold dinar with a standing caliph
Gold mohur (coin) of Shah Jahangir, with his portrait
Gold pendant inlaid with jewels
Gold pendant with inset enamel decoration
Green blown-glass rose water sprinkler
Green glass huqqa base
High-spouted brass ewer
Ivory chess pieces
Jade thumb-ring
Khaled Ben Slimane, ceramic plates (tabaq)
Kilga, support for a water jar
Knife
Lacquer pen-case, signed by the artist Ashraf ibn Riza
Lidded bowl
Limestone relief panel, showing Kai Khosrau
Lustre painted bowl
Lustre-painted ceramic tiles
Marble panel from the cenotaph of Muhammad b. Fatik Ashmuli
Mosque lamp
Mosque lamp-
Moulded stucco plaque
Objects from the Nihavand find
Pen-box
Pilgrim bottle
Relief cut glass tumbler
Rock crystal bottle in the form of a lion
Silver dirham of Saladin
Silver drachm of Khosrau II
Silver-gilt dish
Slip-painted pottery bowl, with an archer on horseback
Spouted jug with dragon handle
Steel peacock
Stonepaste cup in the shape of a harpy
Stonepaste 'Golden Horn' bottle
Stone-paste laqabi dish, decorated with a harpy
Tankard decorated with the signs of the zodiac and the planet Lords
The Blacas Ewer
The Vaso Vescovali
Two jade bases for a huqqa pipe
Underglaze-painted tiles
Yellowish glass flask
Related research projects
Ottoman science in the 19th century
Related themes
Leaders and rulers
Time
Related tours
Arabic Script: Mightier than the Sword
Faith
The art of glass
The Queen of Sheba
Word into art
Related world cultures
Islamic Middle East
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