inkstand

You know, with an inkstand and everything.
Vous savez, avec une écritoire et tout.
Comparisons of the ornamentation have led to the conclusion that this inkstand most probably dates from the second half of the 7th / 13th century.
L'analyse comparative de l'ornementation permet de situer l'objet, selon toutes probabilités, dans la seconde moitié du VIIe/XIIIe siècle.
It contained, among other things, an animal-shaped container with green glaze—it may be an inkstand in the shape of a giraffe—and a cup decorated in green and brown on white glaze, in the caliphate style of Madinat al-Zahra.
Elle contenait entre autre un récipient zoomorphe à glaçure verte - peut-être un encrier en forme de girafe - et une coupe à décor vert et brun sur glaçure blanche, se rattachant au style califal de Madinat al-Zahra.
The inkstand was made of silver and consisted of two inkwells and a sandbox.
L'encrier était en argent et se composait de deux godets à encre et d'un poudrier à sable.
Standing at their centre, one of them has the clothes (white linen) and the tools of a writer (inkstand and ink), which recalls the figure of Nebo, the scribe of the Babylonian pantheon.
L’un, qui se trouve au milieu, porte l’habit en lin blanc et les instruments de celui qui écrit (encre et encrier), ce qui rappelle la figure de Nébo, le copiste du panthéon babylonien.
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