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“This, too, Will Pass”: Moss-Bennett in Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Charles R. McGimsey III
Charles R. McGimsey III*
Affiliation:
Arkansas Archeological Survey, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701
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A monarch who suffered many hours of discouragement, urged his courtiers to devise a motto short enough to be engraved on a ring, which should be suitable alike in prosperity and adversity. After many suggestions had been rejected, his daughter offered an emerald bearing in inscription in Arabic “This, too, will pass” [Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Little, Brown and Company 1937:509].

Type
Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , April 1985 , pp. 326 - 331
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1985

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