Abbasid Al-Rashid Thaghr al-Masisa
$150.00
SKU: Lot92/A
Period: Islamic Period.
Date: 170/193 AH = 786-809 AD.
Material: Bronze.
Description
Description
ISLAMIC, ‘Abbasid Caliphate. temp. Al-Rashid
AH 170-193 / AD 786-809. Fals, Thaghr al-Masisa (‘The Frontier town of al-Masisa’), undated.
Album 298. SICA II, 1591. Rare.
Al-Masisa, the ancient city of Mopsos-Mopsuestia in Cilicia, was located at the northern frontier of the Abbasid empire in the 2nd century AH, explaining its Arab epithet Thaghr (literally ‘frontier’ in Kufic).
