Ottoman Iznik dish with a representation of a garden and a Greek inscription.

Although there's an inscription the rim, the plate might be a museum production item.

Diameter: 31.5 cm

Dish, made of polychrome glazed pottery. The dish, which has a narrow angled rim, is painted in greyish-blue, black, pale green and bole red under a transparent greenish glaze with a multi-tiered pagoda-like tower set between tulips and other floral sprays. Rim with a radial inscription in Greek and the date May 1666.

• Inscription type: inscription
• Inscription position: rim
• Inscription language: Greek
• Inscription script: Greek
• Inscription content: + ΚΗΡΙΕ ΚΗΡΙΕ ΜΗ ΑΠΟCΤΡΕΨΙΣ ΤΟ ΠΡΟCΟΠΟΝ CΟΥ ΑΦ ΙΜΟΝ. ΜΑΙѠ 25, ΕΤΟC 1666.
• Inscription transliteration: + Κύριε, Κύριε, μὴ ἀποστρέψῃς τὸ πρόσωπόν σου ἀφ᾿ ἡμῶν. Μαιω 25, ἔτος 1666.
• Inscription translation: + Lord, Lord, do not turn your face away from us. May 25, AD 1666.

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