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The shape is an upright rectangle with rounded corners at the top, where a triangular upper section rises to a point. The body is earthenware, with a coat of slip under an amber glaze. The inscriptions and decoration were applied through the slip with a stylus. The main body of the stele is laid out as five horizontal pairs of cartouches, as though to receive five couplets of verse. Instead two couplets from a poem in Persian have been inserted into the first four pairs, with each line split between two cartouches. The name and death date of the deceased is recorded in Arabic at the very end of the fourth line and in the final two cartouches, with the date inserted below and then above the name of the deceased. Above the lines of text is a band of ornament (a diaper pattern), while the pairs of cartouches are divided by a central vertical band that is decorated with a continuous repeat pattern of flowers and leaves, perhaps derived from a Chinese peony scroll. The same pattern fills the border round the stele. The triangular space at the top of the stele is filled with representations of objects that a literate man might have carried on his person. In the centre is a turban on a stool (only recognizable because of its appearance in this position on other tombstones). Arranged around it, from right to left, are three unidentified round objects divided horizontally in two; a one-sided comb; a curved dagger or knife; and a double comb. 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The version given here is graphically corrupt.  \r\n\r\nThe month Muharram 1122 in the Hijri calendar corresponds to the period 2 to 31 March 1710."}],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Ceramic memorial stele, buff-coloured earthenware with inscriptions and decoration incised through slip under a clear amber-coloured glaze, Iran, dated 1710.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Yui Kanda, Safavid Ceramic Tombstones, M.Phil. dissertation, University of Oxford, 2015, p.56."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Yui Kanda, “Kashan Revisited: A Luster-Painted Ceramic Tombstone Inscribed with a Chronogram Poem by Muhtasham Kashani”, <i>Muqarnas Online</i>, 34, no. 1 (2017), p.278, fig.6."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["546-1878"],"accessionNumberNum":"546","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1878,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-04-01","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-24","availableToBook":true}}