translucent light beige. not bored. three narrow concentric rings of crowded thin-line script, separated by two bands of darker decoration. central piece is grid with minute symbols, surrounded by ovals of decoration and script.
Shell figure of a calf. Hole for suspension. Eyes formerly inlaid. Cross lines on nose and neck.UE IV: amulet, of white stone, in the form of a standing calf, carved in the round and pierced behind the shoulder for suspension; the eyes were inlaid and the shell ring of one eyeball is preserved
Pendant carved of pink, fine-grained stone. Two fish, joined at their stomachs. Smooth with gills, fins, stomach line incised. Eyes drilled out. Carved loop at the heads, pierced horizontally for suspension, Part of tails broken away.
Black circular amulet decorated with Arabic inscription in circles. large arabic numerals in center. hole bored through diameter. other side smooth.Inscribed
Small, rectangular, inscriptions on both sides, possibly Cufic? Physician's pocket amulet. Small rectangular piece with unidentified inscriptions on both sides.Sommerville Cat. 1504: "Brown hematite. Also a physician's pocket talisman."Sommerville Lists: small glass Mohammedan taliman.Inscribed
Flat, green. writing on both sides, arabic on front, arabic and proto-arabic on back. Talismanic square on front, Koran on reverse.Sommerville Cat. 1501: "Jade. Very elaborate Persian talisman with a square of mystic numbers, which rendered in our numerals read thus: 1279 1283 1280 12721285 1273 1278 12841274 1288 1281 12771282 1286 1270 1287Surrounded on three sides of this square are talismanic inscriptions. They are religious. Reverse, a beautiful inscription of a long verse from the Koran."Inscribed
Amulet of mottled brown stone in the form of a sun-disk supported by a trapezoidal–shaped base. The disk is pierced from front to rear through its center.
Condition: Small chips; otherwise good.
Head missing. Carved from a fine grained stone, perhaps soap stone. Naturally colored red and blue-black. Hole in neck as if for inserting missing head, and grooves on back and breast as if for inserting some decoration.