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Spoon "welcome" Syria ( Syria, 2006 )
household kitchen script baraka (divine blessing) metal
Collection : cooking & eating
Age/Era :
2000–2009

This spoon is part of a cutlery setting with the impressed Arabic welcome greeting ( أهلاً وسهلاً). The material is very thin and stamped, the whole set was sold at a cheap price. Although Arabic writing can be found frequently on historic kitchenware, it is rather rare on contemporary items - apart from drinking vessels that have a close connection to baraka, divine blessing, that is believed to be transmitted to the liquid touching the words and verses.

  • Uploaded by : Alina Kokoschka| © Alina Kokoschka
  • License :Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
  • Date :10/04/2017
  • Link :http://hawass.org/image/512