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Historical Archive: Mosque Lamp blown glass, enameled and gilded, 33.6 x 30.5 cm (13 1/4 x 12 inches) Egypt, Mamluk period. around 1360 made for Sultan Hasan (reigned 1347–51 and 1354-61), for Cairo madrasa built 1356-62 Washington, D.C., Freer Gallery of Art F1957.19 full lamp full lamp, rotated with person for scale full lamp at oblique angle from above opening of lamp, oblique angle from above, reverse of neck inscriptions seen through glass neck inscription, Qur'an (XXIV: 35): Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth.... neck inscription, another part neck, epigraphic blazon of the Sultan Hasan lower neck interlace on body body suspension handle body with suspension handle foot