Moulded pottery inscription tile

Title

Year/Period

13th century

Region

Kashan, Iran

Object Type

tiles (object genre)

Material

ceramic (material), ceramic glaze

Technique

molding (forming), pottery glazing (process or technique), pottery techniques

Dimension

Object size: H: 3.5,
x L: 38.3,
x W: 18.0

Accession No.

1996-00191

Collection of

Asian Civilisations Museum

These tiles were probably intended for use inside a funerary monument. Moulded and painted with underglaze blue, the inscription contains part of a Qur’anic verse: ‘… the most Merciful. The Messenger ....’ The inscription raised in thulth, a cursive script, contains part of the surah al-baqarah (The Cow). The upper and lower bands have inscriptions of the opening verses of the surah al-Kahf (The Cave).