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Auction 27  19-22 January 2017
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Lot 117

Starting price: 80 USD
Price realized: 100 USD
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ARAB-SASANIAN: glass vessel stamp (7.02g), ca. 680s-720s, A-0, B-9, winged horse (al-buraq) pacing toward the right, mixed green & brown, partly opaque, much devitrification, Fine, RRR. The winged horse, al-burag, also appears on Arab-Sasanian pashiz from Istakhr (Gyselen-22, A-) and Darabjird (Gyselen-13, A-45.2). Al-Buraq was the winged horse, often illustrated with a human rather than an equine head, that carried the Prophet Muhammad from Mecca to Jerusalem, then back to Mecca.

Estimate: 100-125 USD
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