Conserved at the Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo.
Three emblems dividing the neck inscription and three emblems at the bottom of the body. All the same.
Body inscription:
برسم المقرّ الأشرف العالي المولوي المخدومي السيفي شيخو الناصري
For His Most Noble and High Excellency, our Lord, the Well-Served, Sayf al-Dīn Shaykhū, (officer) of (al-Malik) al-Nāṣir.
Possible dating: before 758/1357
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Simon Rousselot (February 29, 2020). Glass lamp for Shaykhū (Cairo). Mamluk Emblems Online Corpus. Retrieved September 19, 2024 from https://doi.org/10.58079/rdey