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^{page 489 note 3} Sobernheim, M., ‘Arabische Gefässinschriften’, in ZDPV., xxviii, 1905, pp. 184–5.Google Scholar

^{page 489 note 4} I am indebted to Mr. J. David-Weill, Keeper of Islamic Antiquities in the Musée du Louvre, for permission to publish this exhibit, and to Mrs. M. Hours for the facilities granted to me in the Laboratory of the Museum.

^{page 490 note 1} On the difference between kafīlī and kāfilī see SIMW., I, BSOAS., xiv, 3, p. 565, n. 2.Google Scholar

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^{page 492 note 1} Mayer, L. A., op. cit., p. 85Google Scholar. For this reason, no doubt, they were not identified as the blazons of the amir for whom the box in the Louvre was made (cf. ibid., p. 86).

^{page 492 note 2} cf. ibid., p. 125.

^{page 492 note 3} Mayer, L. A., New Material for Mamluk Heraldry, Jerusalem, 1937, p. 9.Google Scholar

^{page 492 note 4} Idem, Saracenic Heraldry, p. 126.Google Scholar

^{page 492 note 5} For a reproduction of this candlestick, cf. Serra, L., Il R. Museo Artistico industriale di Roma, Rome, 1934, pl. 24, a.Google Scholar

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^{page 493 note 4} cf. Sobernheim, M., CIA., Syrie, pi. xii.Google Scholar

^{page 493 note 5} It is possible, however, that they changed their coat of arms upon becoming sultans, cf. Saracenic Heraldry, p. 144 (2).Google Scholar

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^{page 495 note 1} For a discussion of these floral decorative elements, cf. Pope, J. A., Fourteenth-century Blue-and-White (Freer Gallery of Art Occasional Papers, ii, 1), Washington, 1952, pp. 37–9, and pl. A.Google Scholar

^{page 496 note 1} For a colour reproduction, cf. Hamilton, R. W., ‘A Mosaic Carpet of Umayyad date at Khirbat al Mafjar’, in QDAP., xiv, 1950, pl. xlvi.Google Scholar

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^{page 496 note 4} The dimensions of this ewer are: height 30 cm., maximum diameter 18·5 cm. It is mentioned in Wiet, G., Objets en cuivre, Cairo, 1930, Appendix, No. 209.Google Scholar

^{page 496 note 5} A lateral view of this basin is reproduced in SIMW., I, in BSOAS., xiv, 3, pl. 11.Google Scholar

^{page 497 note 1} The dimensions of this brass basin are: height 17 cm., upper diameter 40 cm. The name of the maker (Pl. VII, b) is erroneously given as Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad Isṭanbūlī in Wiet, G., Objets en cuivre, p. 260Google Scholar, No. 484. The inscription reads:

^{page 497 note 2} For a partial photograph of this tray, cf. Mayer, L. A., Saracenic Heraldry, pl. xxii, 3.Google Scholar

^{page 497 note 3} For the inscriptions on this candlestick see Amari, M., op. cit., pp. 122 ff.Google Scholar

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^{page 499 note 1} I am indebted to Bay Elif Naci, Director of the Türk ve Islam Eserleri Müzesi, for the facilities granted to me at the Museum, and for permission to publish this exhibit. The candlestick formerly belonged to the inili Kök collection, which it reached through purchase.

^{page 500 note 1} In this inscription Aydemir is spelt with a long vowel in the last syllable. This is due to the uncertain transcription of Turkish proper names in Arabic. Aydemir is a name composed of two substantives ay = moon, and demir = iron. cf. Sauvaget, J., ‘Noms et surnoms des mamelouks’, in Journal Asiatique, ccxxxviii, 1950, pp. 31–58.Google Scholar

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^{page 501 note 1} cf. Rice, D. S., ‘The Seasons and Labors of the Months’, in Ars Orientalis, i (in the Press).Google Scholar

^{page 501 note 2} Dr. R. Ettinghausen has called my attention to three further specimens of this type of Persian-Caucasian candlestick, which should be added to the list of 33 given in my article mentioned in the preceding note. They are:—

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also reproduced in the Sale Catalogue of the J. Brummer collection, No. 2 (Parke-Bernet),

11th–14th May, 1949, No. 126 and p. 29.

No. 35: J. Brummer collection, Sale Catalogue, pt. i, 20th-23rd April, 1949, No. 99, and p. 27. (Present whereabouts unknown.)

No. 36: Heeramaneck collection, New York.

^{page 502 note 1} I owe the permission to publish this piece to Dr. Filippo Rossi, Director of the Museo Nazionale, Florence.