Name: Silver ring.
Description: A silver ring with a glass stone embedded in a quadrangular socket, also of silver. A clamp on one of the sides holds the orange stone in place.
Material: Silver and orange glass stone.
Provenance: Citadel of Mértola.
Chronology: 12th century
Location: Museum of Mértola.
Name: “Ric-rac” board game
Description: A board game engraved in a slab of shale. Only three rectangles linked together by a line are partially visible, as part of its surface was damaged.
Material: Slab of shale.
Provenance: Chapel of Achada de S. Sebastião
Location: Museum of Mértola - Chapel of Achada de S. Sebastião.
Dimensions: Lenght: 28cm, width: 25 cm, thickness: 7 cm.
Name: Glass cup
Description: Cup with thin walls whose form was obtained by constraining the area around the base. The base is circular, conical in shape, and the rim is straight and rounded.
Material: Yellow-brown glass.
Technique: Manufactured by blowing into a closed mould; relief decoration - veins rising from base to edge, often forming spirals.
Provenance: Mértola’s Castle (1996).
Location: Museum of Mértola - Islamic Art.
Name: Plaque with inscription
Provenance: The hillside of the Castle of Mértola
Location: Museum of Mértola / Islamic Art Museum
Description: A rectangular plaque with polished surfaces, where an inscription was made. The inscription consists of a sequence of Arabic letters, painted in black, and repeated five times, meaning "for him”. These plaques covered small boxes or decorated chests with metal ornaments.
Dimensions: Length: 61mm, width: 17mm.
Name: Cancellus
Provenance: Mértola
Location: Museum of Mértola. Museum of Islamic Art
Description: A cancellus made of medium grained grey marble, partially destroyed to fit in a 16th century door jamb. The side facing the faithful was decorated by a set of intersecting circles with knobs on the centre, and two concentric circles on each of the knobs. The inlaid quatrefoils stand out in relief. A slot on one side would have fit in the pilaster, which bounded the cancellus.
Name: Bowl with hunting scene (symbol of Mértola’s Archaeological Site)
Provenance: Citadel of Mértola. Crypto-porticus
Location: Museum of Mértola. Museum of Islamic Art
Description: A large bowl with a flat rim, semi-spherical body and convex base with a tall, annular foot. The exterior has grooves and a nearly transparent glaze. The inner side depicts, in green and manganese, a hunting scene in which a greyhound and a falcon attack a gazelle.
Name: Impost
Description: The three decorated sides of the impost have a frieze of lozenges with knobs on the centre, formed by two small circles. Ivy leaves fill the remaining space.
Chronology: 7th-8th centuries
Material: Medium grained white marble
Dimensions: Height: 17cm; max. width: 40cm, min. width: 36cm.
Provenance: Church of Mértola
Location: Museum of Mértola / Castle of Mértola Museum Hub
Name: Adornment from small chest
Provenance: Mértola
Location: Museum of Mértola. Museum of Islamic Art
Description: Small quadrangular adornment from a chest with plant-form decoration: two flowers with light blue and greyish green enamelled petals, surrounded by white enamel and the remaining spaces filled with light blue. This object was used to decorate small chests covered with bone or marble sheets.
Dimensions: Height 37mm, larg.16mm
Name: Small jug
Provenance: Citadel of Mértola. Crypto-porticus.
Location: Museum of Mértola. Museum of Islamic Art
Description: Small jug with a rounded mouth, cylindrical neck and globular body. The base was not preserved. A single vertical handle of circular cross section joined the mouth to the body. The paste is white with medium-sized shale fragments. The object is decorated with three horizontal sets of dots of greenish lead glaze.
Name: Gravestone of Abu Bakr Yaḥyã ‘Abd Allâh Ibn al - Huwãrī
Provenance: From the collection of Estácio da Veiga, who in 1877 found it wedged on the Northeast walls of the Castle.
Location: Museum of Mértola. Museum of Islamic Art
Description: Rectangular gravestone, slightly wider at the top, nearly filled by an epigraph with thirteen lines carved in compact cursive without diacritics, with a careless and irregular paging.
Dimensions: 445x260x70mm