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Title: The industrial arts in Spain
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Riaño, Juan F. (Juan Facundo), 1829-1901
Subjects: Decorative arts Pottery
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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h), be with the Hagib Seifodaula (sword of the State), Abdelmalek ben Almansur. This (box)was made by the orders (of the said Hagib), under the inspection ordi-ection of his chief eunuch, NomajT ben Mohammad Alaumeri,his slave in the year of 395, (a.d. 1005). In the centre medallion, on the opposite side to the lock, isrepresented the standing figure of a man who is attacked by twolions. He holds on his arm a shield, upon which is engraved aninscription, with the following religious formula: There is noGod but God, or a similar one, for the characters are veryillegible and confused. In the centre of this shield may be read^^^ J^ff , made by Hair, undoubtedly one of the artists whomade the box. Another artists name may be read with diffi-culty in a similar inscription which appears on one of themedallions on the left side : it is written on the thigh of a stag,which is attacked by a lion iJ^.^-c J^c, it was made by Obeidat.Three other inscriptions of a similar character appear in other
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K 2 132 SPANISH INDUSTRIAL ART. parts of this box, which probably give the names of other artists,but I have been unable to decipher them. Among other artistic objects in the shrine of the cathedral ofBraga, in Portugal, there is an ivory box of the same period, andthe inscription, which runs round the cover, mentions the samepersons: There is no God but God, and Mahomad is his prophet. Inthe name of God, a blessing, prosperity and fortune for theHagib Seifo, d. daula, for this work, which he ordered to bemade by the hands of—here the inscription has been broken off—his principal eunuch. (Vide ^x\rtes e Letras, No. 6,3rdseries, p. 94, Lisbon, 1874.) Both these caskets were made for Hadjeb Abd el Melik, aminister of Hischem the second. It is necessary to add to them an ivory diptych, preserved atthe Provincial Museum of Burgos, which, as we find by the fol-lowing inscription, was also made for Abder Rahman III. (a.d.912-961). This was ordered to be made by the Iman servant of GodAb

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