Three Official Objects from the Early Islamic Period

Abstract

This paper presents three lead objects: a weight and two seals, two from the Umayyad period
and one from the Abbasid period. The weight is dated by its script, the Umayyad seal by the
name of the caliph ‘Abd al-Malik and the Abbasid seal is dated to the year 155 AH/ 771/2 CE.
That date places the seal in the rule of al-Manṣūr (r. 136–158/754–775). These three objects
add previously unknown information about administrative affairs in the two periods.