Frieze / fragment

Wooden frieze fragment carved in relief with a large-scale Kufic inscription, probably forming part of a Qur'anic inscription: Egypt or Syria, Tulunid or Fatimid, late 2nd - 5th century AH / 9th - 11th century AD

Frieze / fragment

Fragment of a limestone relief showing one of the rear legs of a bull and its tail, in combat with a lion attacking its hindquarters : Persian, Persepolis, from the palace of Artaxerxes I, c.460 BC