Bronze magic bowl, Near East, probably 18th century Bronze bowl with central umbilicus, engraved with Arabic inscriptions over the entire surface, calligraphed in a frieze and distributed in roundels inside the body, in cartouches and radiating petals on the outside. Most of these inscriptions are religious, mainly Koranic, and include lines of numbers and a magic square on the umbilicus. Beneath the umbilicus is a name, perhaps of the owner: Khawajah 'Alî [?] Diameter: 20.3 cm Oxidation, cracks around the umbilicus.