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<p>[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 7945860, member: 82322"]While we are on the subject of Samanid bronze allow me to mention a puzzle. Here are two falus, dated just a year apart:</p><p><br /></p><p> [ATTACH=full]1376020[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1376022[/ATTACH]</p><p>Both of these seem to be Samanid fals from Shash, Nasr b. Ahmad. Identical inscriptions and orientation. The first one dated to 254 AH, the second just a year later. Yet the lettering style couldn't look more different!</p><p><br /></p><p>The first one looks like fine calligraphy, the second like it was done with a pencil. (I don't know the proper terminology for the styles.) The die cutters worked together and I bet each hated the other and thought the other's artistic style was terrible.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 7945860, member: 82322"]While we are on the subject of Samanid bronze allow me to mention a puzzle. Here are two falus, dated just a year apart: [ATTACH=full]1376020[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1376022[/ATTACH] Both of these seem to be Samanid fals from Shash, Nasr b. Ahmad. Identical inscriptions and orientation. The first one dated to 254 AH, the second just a year later. Yet the lettering style couldn't look more different! The first one looks like fine calligraphy, the second like it was done with a pencil. (I don't know the proper terminology for the styles.) The die cutters worked together and I bet each hated the other and thought the other's artistic style was terrible.[/QUOTE]
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