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N. OHAN. 
JERUSALEM
[[foreign language?]]                     Jerusalem      190
Telegr. Address:-OHAN, JERUSALEM.
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Explanation
One Arabic written tile,(Kishany). The inscription is. "Ma-Pha-El-lah. ta-ā-lah."; "meaning"- What the highest God wishes" - The half is the same opposite bit. it is brough[t] from the front of an old house in Jerusalem.
One pottery dish painted with glass:- found in Rakkah near Aleppo; it is little mended, you will notice that in the centre, it shows more paint than required, the broken ball, found in a place called, village, "Dahriah" near "Hebron" it was found by a farmer, when he was ploughing his ground, the iron plough, struck the ball and broke it to many pieces. & This is the only pieces I could secure in the bottom of the ball. There is a "Kou fic" inscription The Jar which is painted, I have sent it for you to plant in it some flowers, with your collection, in was made for liquid fluids
The four Tiles, They are perriano work, & are inlaid & quilted, and the long tile in the sauce,
And the Two pieces when you put Them Together, they look like a star, and from far they look as two tiles put together And the small ink-stand, is found in [[strikeout]] Schein [[/strikeout]] Shelum.

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