Dr. Busso Peus Nachf.
Auction 421 1-3 Nov 2017
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Hayyân ibn Shurayh, finance director of Egypt, 99-101 H./717-720 AD Vessel stamp for a measure of boiled wheat amara hayyân / ibn Shurayh / mikyâla qamh / maslû' w / âf. 228.00 g.; Apparently unique Very fine
Ex Sotheby's 28 May 1987, lot 581.
The text was transcribed in the Sotheby's auction catalogue as qamh / maslûq / wâf, but the last word is split up between the last two lines and the word maslûq = boiled is written in the Damascus dialect form in which the letter qâf is replaces by hamza.
Hayyân ibn Shurayh, finance director of Egypt, 99-101 H./717-720 AD Vessel stamp for a measure of boiled wheat amara hayyân / ibn Shurayh / mikyâla qamh / maslû' w / âf. 228.00 g.; Apparently unique Very fine
Ex Sotheby's 28 May 1987, lot 581.
The text was transcribed in the Sotheby's auction catalogue as qamh / maslûq / wâf, but the last word is split up between the last two lines and the word maslûq = boiled is written in the Damascus dialect form in which the letter qâf is replaces by hamza.