Silk Roads: arrival of Islam

DSC00345LondenBritishMuseumSilkRoadsTheArrivalOfIslamTxtDSC00346LondenBritishMuseumSilkRoadsLustre(MetallicGlze)BowlWithAPriestEgypt(probablyCairo)1050-1100. Londen, British Museum, Silk Roads, Lustre (Metallic glaze) bowl with a priest, Egypt (probably Cairo), 1050 – 1100.

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The book of strange arts and visual delights or Book of curiosities, Egypt, about 1190 – 1210 (copy of a work from 1020 – 1050)


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Christian Cross, Monastery of San Millán de la Cogolla, La Rioja, Spain, late AD 900s, ivory.

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Mohammad ibn al-Saffar, Astrolabe, Cordoba, Spain, 1026 – 1027.