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A 12th-century iron key to the Ka’ba in Mecca, the holiest site in Islam, was sold for £9.2 million at Sotheby’s in London yesterday.
Its existence was previously unknown and prompted a bidding battle that took the price to more than 18 times the £400,000-£500,000 estimate in an auction of Islamic art, whose 405 lots sold for a total of £21.5 million.
The key, which is 37cms (15in) long, was formerly in a private collection in the Lebanon and dated from 1179-1180.
It was bought anonymously and is the second-earliest of only 58 known examples. Others are in European and Middle Eastern museums.
http://ramadan4u.blogspot.com/2008/04/800-year-old-key-to-islams-most-holy.html
A 12th-century iron key to the Ka’ba in Mecca, the holiest site in Islam, was sold for £9.2 million at Sotheby’s in London yesterday.
Its existence was previously unknown and prompted a bidding battle that took the price to more than 18 times the £400,000-£500,000 estimate in an auction of Islamic art, whose 405 lots sold for a total of £21.5 million.
The key, which is 37cms (15in) long, was formerly in a private collection in the Lebanon and dated from 1179-1180.
It was bought anonymously and is the second-earliest of only 58 known examples. Others are in European and Middle Eastern museums.
http://ramadan4u.blogspot.com/2008/04/800-year-old-key-to-islams-most-holy.html