Deliberation Before Action Protects You From Regret

a top down view of an 18 inch diameter white porcelain bowl with thin, geometric, elongated, almost abstract kufic-style arabic calligraphy around the rim, with extensions down into the bowl, written in black slip. from 10th century iran, at the met
Bowl with Arabic calligraphy, 10th century, Nishapur, Iran, 18 in diameter, collection Met Museum

The new-style Kufic calligraphy on this 10th century bowl is glorious. It translates to “Deliberation before action protects you from regret; good fortune and good health.” I’m assuming that’s not an Oxford semicolon.

Here is a reading and translation that follows along the inscription.
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