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| Keywords: Musa - Girdle - Walters 572325.jpg The girdle is made of a flexible interlace mesh and has eleven movable retainers with large rhombic attachments each with two tear-shaped pendants and twelve retainers with smaller rhombic attachments each with one pendant All attachments were cast Small rings and rosettes frame the large rhombic elements and three-ring motif with burling rosettes accompany the smaller ones at their top and bottom The clasps are also decorated with a large rhombic elements A wire shaped in a figure-eight with a rosette is used as a closing element On the front of the clasps is an Arabic stamp with the name of the ruler and a date al-Mahdi 1170 The similarity to stamps of al-Mahdi al- Abbas makes it likely that the pendants were produced under his reign from AH 1161 to 1189 AD 1748-1775 An engraved inscription on the back of the clasp names the silversmith Musa Iraqi For another object by Musa Iraqi see Walters 57 2321 1170 AH/AD 1756-1757 silver with gilding L 34 x W 1 in 86 3 x 2 6 cm accession number 57 2325 80929 Mr Benjamin Zucker Zucker Family Trust and Mr Derek Content New York and London by purchase Walters Art Museum Joint gift to the Walters Art Museum Baltimore and the Israel Museum Jerusalem by Mr Benjamin Zucker and Mr Derek Content in honor of Mrs Barbara Zucker and Mrs Amanda Content 2010 Stamp Arabic al-Mahdi 1170 Engraving Hebrew Musa Iraqi place of origin Yemen Walters Art Museum license Jewellery in the Walters Art Museum South Arabian art in the Walters Art Museum Musa Iraqi Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
