Ewer with Lamp-Shaped Spout

Inscription: Inscription in Arabic, in kufic script on belly, and in naskhi script in bands:
-Top: Might, prosperity, power, health, happiness, to the owner
-Bottom: Victory and blessing, and power, and well-being, and happiness, and health, and victory, and intercession, and stability to the owner. The owner [is] `Ali bin `Abd al-Rahman bin Tahir al Adib (learned priest) the Sijzi (from Sistan)
(Transl. Hannah McAllister, approved by Dr. Herzfeld, 3/1938)

-top: Glory, prosperity, dominion, security, and happiness to its owner;
-belly: Its owner `Ali bin `Abd al-Rahman bin Tahir al-Adib al-Sijzi (of Sijistan);
-bottom: "With auspiciousness, blessing, dominion, wealth, happiness, security, victory, forgiveness, and continuance to its owner".
(Transl. by Yassir al-Tabba 1978):

Top in naskhi script:
العز و الاقبال و الدولة/ و السلامة و السعادة لصاحبه

On belly in kufic script:
صاحبه علي بن عبدالرحمن/ بن طاهر الادیب السجزي

Bottom in kufic script:
بالیمن و البرکة و الدولة و النعمة و السعادة/ و السلامة و الشکرة و الشفاعة لصاحبه
(A.Ghouchani, 2010)

The inscription also read by Yassir al-Tabba as:
Top العز و الاقبال و لدوله و السلامه و السعاده لصاحبه
Belly صاحبه علی بن عبدالرحمن بن طاهر الادیب السجزی
Bottom بالیمن و البرکه و الدوله و النعمه و السعاده و السلامه و النصره و الشفاعه و البقا لصاحبه

[ R. Y. Mottahedeh, until 1933; sold to MMA]

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