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Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 2009.01.0174
- Other Number
- 3002
- Type of Number
- Original Number
- Object Name
- Coin
- Lot
- Gordus, Adon
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Coins
- Length
- ;
- Width
- ;
- Height
- ;
- Thickness
- ;
- Weight
- 2.913;2.9g
- Pierced
- no
- Inscribed
- no
- Full Artifact Description
- Umayyad dirham minted in Spain during the rule of the Umayyad caliph al-Hisham (723-743). This dirham includes the Muslim monotheistic creed along with the 112th chapter of the Qur'an (Surat al-Ikhlas). This dirham is pierced with a hole, suggesting that in later centuries it may have functioned as a pendant or amulet. Silver (Pearls of Wisdom, Gruber; Dimmig).
- Verbatim Date
- 118 AH
- Other Date Type
- Islamic Calendar (AH)
- Other Date
- 118
- Earliest Other Date
- 118
- Latest Other Date
- 118
- Verbatim Provenance
- Spain
- Production Site
- site
- Denomination
- dirhem
- Authority
- Hisham ibn Abd al Malik?
- Mint
- al_Andalous
- Countermark
- no
- Exhibition Title
- Pearls of Wisdom: The Arts of Islam at the University of Michigan (exhibit)
- Exhibition Curator
- Gruber, Christiane
- Publication Title
- Pearls of Wisdom: The Arts of Islam at the University of Michigan
- Publication Author
- Gruber, Christiane; Dimmig, Ashley
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Class Title
- Art of the Islamic World (F2018)
- Working with Objects: Islamic Textiles, Metalwork, Ceramics, Glass, and Manuscripts (W2020)
- Student Program from MES (W2020)
- Art and Architecture of the Mediterranean World (Fall 2023)
- The Mediterranean (W2024)
- Class Instructor
- Crasnow, Sascha
- Gruber, Christiane
- Wollenberg, Rebecca
- Hussein, Mostafa
- Selcer, Perrin
- Esener, Bihter
- Class Department
- RCHUMS
- HISTART
- MIDEAST
- HISTORY
- Class Number
- 334.006
- 490.001
- 197.002
- 253
- Class Year
- 2018
- 2020
- 2023
- 2024
- Class Semester
- Fall
- Winter
- Type Category
- Numismatic
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 2272 x 1704
- File Size
- 203 KB
- Record
- 2009.01.0174
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-2009.01.0174/2009_01_0174p02.tif
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"Coin; Copper; Gold; Silver." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-2009.01.0174/2009_01_0174p02.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.