Bowl with Incised Inscription
800s
- Medium
- glass
- Classification
- Glass
- Dimensions
- Overall: 4.8 x 9.8 cm (1 7/8 x 3 7/8 in.)
- Culture
- Iraq, Abbasid Period, 9th Century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Islamic Art
- Credit line
- Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The incised inscription, which translates as "Felicity, Glory, Happiness," is an early type of Kufic of which very few examples survive.
