A highly rare and important inscribed bronze Zakat measure (mudd), ordered by the Almohad Caliph Sultan Ya’qub al-Mansur ibn Yusuf, signed by Muhammad ibn Jafar, Spain or Morocco, dated 580 AH/1184 AD

of truncated conical shape with straight rim, consisting of three welded pieces featuring three bands of engraved decoration, the upper band riveted to the body with dedicatory inscription in Maghribi script, the lower band with arabesques, the body with four cartouches of inscriptions on a lush foliate ground, a further inscription to the underside within a leaf-shaped cartouches, a handle soldered to the upper band, composed of three links including a hook with extremities in the shape of half palmettes and two rings

10.6cm. height

11.1cm. max. diam.