A Fatimid Silver medicine flask with kufic inscription, Syria or Egypt, 10th/11th century, and a small silver oil lamp

the cast flask of drop form with trefoil pendant and turned concave cylindrical neck, engraved on both flat faces with Arabic inscriptions in foliated kufic; the oil lamp with hemispherical bowl, tripod base, straight spout and foliate thumbpiece

inscription
In Arabic:
al-'izz wa al-kirama/li-man talaba al-salama
'Might and Honour to the one who seeks Health'

For a closely related example of Kufic script from the Fatimid period, see the tiraz fragment in lot 175.