Watch List notes:

ARAB-SASANIAN: Glass vessel stamp (17.04g), ca. 680s-720s, B--, peacock-like bird standing, facing right, with fan-shape tail, holding an undulating tendril in its beak, with the Arabic legend 'amara Allah above, light tannish-green, a few small spots of devitrification, magnificent large piece, VF to EF, RRR. Cf. Balog-2 for a very similar but somewhat smaller glass stamp without the Arabic text above the peacock. Balog qualified that piece as either very late Sasanian or early Islamic. The peacock-like bird is sometimes regarded as the senmurg, the fabled bird of ancient Iranian mythology. The more traditional image of the senmurg appears on a copper pashiz of Ardashir-Khurra (Gyselen-2, A-41).

Estimate: 850-950 USD