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Qustul (Arabic: قسطل, romanized: Qusṭul) is an archaeological cemetery located on the eastern bank of the Nile in Lower Nubia, just opposite of Ballana near the Sudan frontier. The site has archaeological records from the A-Group culture , the New Kingdom of Egypt and the X-Group culture .
Incense burners (miqtarah in Arabic) were used in both religious and secular contexts, but were more widely utilized in palaces and houses. The earliest known examples of dish-shaped incense burners with zoomorphic designs were excavated in Ghanza, [14] [15] while the earliest examples of zoomorphic incense burners are from 11th-century ...
The word is derived from "bakhoor", incense. The mabkhara was traditionally made from clay or soft stone. Most mabkharas (or mabakhir, the Arabic plural) have a square pedestal base with inward sloping sides which support a square cup with outward sloping sides. The wooden base is often carved out to form legs.
Likewise, we find that Maimonides writes in his Code of Jewish Law [129] that the "qinnamon" is the wood that comes from the isles of India whose fragrance is good, and which men use in incense." He later gives the specific Arabic name for this one spice, calling it العود = "al-oud", [130] meaning, agarwood (Aquilaria agallocha; var ...
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Incense smoke wafts from huge burners in Lhasa, Tibet. The first recorded use of incense was by the Indians in the Indus Valley Civilisation in 3600 BC. Egyptians during the Fifth Dynasty, 2345-2494 BC were the first in the non-Asian world to discover the use of incense, which was used by Hindus for centuries by the time of the 5th Dynasty. [1]
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The objects include bowls, incense burners, and ewers. [49] Brass and bronze are common materials. [50] Metalworkers in 12th- and 13th-century Iran made vessels and incense burners in the shape of birds and animals, and the collection includes several examples. [51]