Glass globe for Ṣirghitmish

Conserved in the 1930’s at the National Museum of Arab Art, Cairo.

Scan from Saracenic Heraldry

Two emblems dividing the inscription:

المقرّ الكريم العالي المولوي المالكي المخدومي السيفي صرغتمش

His Honorable and High Excellency, our Lord, the Royal, the Well-Served Sayf al-dīn Ṣirghitmish

Possible dating: 757/1356 (when his madrasa was built)

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