{"id":929,"date":"2015-09-13T14:01:37","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T14:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/blog\/2015\/09\/13\/brassmanticore-inscribed-sapphire-ring-late\/"},"modified":"2020-02-14T12:29:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T18:29:29","slug":"brassmanticore-inscribed-sapphire-ring-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/blog\/2015\/09\/13\/brassmanticore-inscribed-sapphire-ring-late\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

brassmanticore<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n<\/a>

Inscribed Sapphire Ring<\/h2>\n

Late 14th century (gold setting); 10th century? (sapphire)<\/p>\n

Italian<\/p>\n

\n

Many rings employ stones repurposed from other pieces of jewelry. This
\nextraordinary ring showcases a large sapphire inscribed in Arabic with
\nthe name: \u201cAbd as-Salam ibn Ahmad.\u201d<\/b> The stone, engraved centuries before
\n the ring was created, was clearly highly prized. Sapphire, which was
\nquarried in Ceylon, Arabia, and Persia, came west through trade. The
\nstone was associated with chastity and purity. A second inscription
\nreads: \u201cFor love you were made and for love I wear you.\u201d This work, with
\n its mixture of eastern and western elements, is among one of the rarest
\n in the Griffin Collection.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

(MET)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

brassmanticore: Inscribed Sapphire Ring Late 14th century (gold setting); 10th century? (sapphire) Italian Many rings employ stones repurposed from other pieces of jewelry. This extraordinary ring showcases a large sapphire inscribed in Arabic with the name: \u201cAbd as-Salam ibn Ahmad.\u201d The stone, engraved centuries before the ring was created, was clearly highly prized. Sapphire, which … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[269,213,390,116,112],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4eTPU-eZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":931,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}