1010 | Amulet

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CALIFAL OR TAIFAS PERIOD. Rectangular amulet. (Pb. 7.85g/39x24mm). Possibly 10th-11th century. Rectangular lead plate with no signs of having been bent. In both areas, framed by a narrow band in which a scratch motif is repeated, seven lines of Quranic text in elegant Kufic script, with the tall letters finished in a bevel. anv: عْبُدْ رَبَّكَ / حتّى ياتيك اليقين / حسبي ألله و كفل prayer and do not/be one of the careless/and worship your Lord/until death comes to you./God is enough for me and keeps me). Rev.: وت و سي كفيكهم / أللهُ وَ هُوَ السَّمِيعُ الع َليمُ in the/Alive that does not/die. It will be enough for you against them/God, He is the one who hears everything, the one who knows everything). (Amulets 370-N14. Type A-IV, same specimen). Almost Very Fine.