Watch List notes:

Sicily. Islamic (c. 10th or 11th century AD). Amulet lead case. Small box (21.5 x 20.4mm) with a suspension loop on the top and a flap opened on the right to contain in its interior a folded talismanic scroll. D/ Text in Kufic distributed on both sides probably bearing the 'surat al-Ikhlas' (Quran 112, 14), considered particularly apotropaic and especially protective. Cf. for a similar amulet box with talismanic scroll dated 11th cent., from Egypt: Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, AKM 508; Cf. Sotheby's, 25 April 2002, London, n. 8. Pb. 9.90 g. RR. About VF.