Category:
Tools and equipment, writing and drawing equipment, pencases
Date:
Islamic Period, Mamluke Period (1252-1517)
Provenance:
Upper Egypt, Cairo
Material(s):
- Non-organic material, metal, copper
- Non-organic material, metal, silver
Length:
30 cm;
Width:
9 cm
Hall:
Islamic Antiquities, showcase 31
The information given here is subject to modification/update as a result of ongoing research.
References
- Frédéric Bauden, “The Calligrapher is an Ape! Arabic Epigrams on Pen Boxes (Sixth/Twelfth-Ninth/Fifteenth centuries)”, chap. 16 in Inscriptions of the Medieval Islamic World, edited by Bernard O'Kane, A. C. S. Peacock and Mark Muehlhauesler, Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023): 495-496, fig. 16.4.
- Zahi Hawass, ed., Bibliotheca Alexandrina: The Archaeology Museum (Cairo: The Supreme Council of Antiquities, 2002): 127-128.
- Mona Serry, ed., Bibliotheca Alexandrina: Antiquities Museum, introduction by Ismail Serageldin (Alexandria: Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Antiquities Museum, 2015): 207, 332.