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1861, after the impressions were taken, the stone itself was cut down 

 to form a rectangular-shaped jewel, and there is no other record of 

 the original form and engraved characters at present extant. The 

 weight of the stone, before cutting, was 197 carats, and in its reduced 

 form it may, perhaps, be only about one-third of that amount. Its 

 present possessor is not known. Messrs. Hunt and Eoskell state that 

 this stone was also a spinel.^ 



There were five separate inscriptions on it as follows : — 



(1). Alcbar ShaJii, 1009 (= a.d. 1600). 



(2). Shah Alcbar, Jahangir Shah, 1016 (?) (= a.d. 1607). 

 This date is doubtful as regards the 6, 



(3). Sahih Kir an Sani {i.e. Shah Jahan), 1044 {^-^ a.d. 1634). 



(4). Alamgir Shah {i.e. Aurungzeh), 1069 (= a.d. 1658). 



(5). Bazu-hand"- Shah Shdhdn. 

 Sultan Nadir Sahib lurdn. 

 Muntalclib Jawdhir-Khund Hindustan. 



" Armlet of the King of Kings, Sultan ISTadir, Lord of the Con- 

 junction. A selected piece from the Jewel-treasury of 

 Hindustan." There is no date to this triplet; it must, 

 however, have been engraved between 1739, when Nadir 

 looted Delhi, and 1747, when he was murdered at 

 Khorassan. 

 The similarity in the titles on the two rubies has been made 

 apparent above, in addition to which it may be mentioned that there 

 is a considerable degree of similarity in the style of the engraving 

 of the names, respectively, excepting only Akbar's. This is suffi- 

 ciently apparent in the transcripts (see Plate X.), although the two 

 sets were reproduced by somewhat different methods — one by tracings 

 from photographic enlargements, and the other by hand-copies. In 

 making the former, as well as in the ingenious reproductions of 

 the inscriptions on the models, from, which he took the photographs 

 from which the Plate has been prepared, I had the assistance of Mr. 

 A. M'Googan, Technical Assistant in the Science and Art Museum. 



^ In order to estimate the sp. g. of tlie original stone, I have compared its 

 weight with that of the leaden model, and its sp. g. The ruby M^eighed 197 

 carats, or 40'66 grams, from which it may he deduced that the stone was most 

 probably spinel, thus — 



40-66 X 8'928 (sp. g. of model) \ _ o.«- ( rather low, indeed, for spinel, 

 -f lOT'lO (weight of model) ] ~ ' \ but far too low for corundrum. 



^ In Persia, the Bazu-hand or armlet often contains a talisman. 



