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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>The '''Samarian Spinel''' is a {{convert|500|carat|g|adj=on}} [[spinel]] gemstone that is the largest of its kind in the world. It is part of the [[Iranian Crown Jewels]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Grande|first1=Lance|last2=Augustyn|first2=Allison|title=Gems and Gemstones: Timeless Natural Beauty of the Mineral World|date=2009|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=9780226305110|page=83|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RnE9Fa4pbn0C&q=Samarian+spinel&pg=PA83|accessdate=18 January 2018|language=en}}</ref><br />
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==Origins==<br />
It and a smaller {{convert|270|carat|g|adj=on}} spinel were captured by the Persian King [[Nadir Shah]] during his 18th-century conquest of India. The smaller of the two spinels bears a 350-year-old inscription attributing its ownership to [[Jahangir]], a Mughal Emperor of India. Legend states that in response to court criticism for having inscribed his own name on the stone, the Emperor proclaimed "This stone shall make my name more famous than the entire dynasty of [[Timur|Tamerlane]]!" His prediction proved somewhat correct as the [[Timurid dynasty|Tamerlane dynasty]] was overthrown after 230 years, while Jahangir's name lives on inscribed on a number of gemstones found in the Iranian treasury.<br />
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The Samarian spinel has a hole in it. According to a diary entry of the court physician to the Iranian Shah [[Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar]], the King told the physician that the stone once adorned the neck of the [[biblical]] golden calf, which the [[Israelites]] are said to have made while [[Moses]] was receiving [[the Ten Commandments]]. A diamond was added later to conceal the hole.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://famousdiamonds.tripod.com/samarianspinel.html |title=The Samarian Spinel |publisher=famousdiamonds.tripod.com |accessdate=23 June 2013}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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*Meen & Tushingham, 1968: [[Bank Markazi Iran]], 1971<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.ruby-sapphire.com/r-s-bk-quality5.htm A gemstone account]<br />
* [http://famousdiamonds.tripod.com/samarianspinel.html Samarian Spinel [picture<nowiki>]</nowiki>]<br />
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