caa a22 4500 388087897 CHVBK 20180307125236.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199904 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S1356186300015935 doi S1356186300015935 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S1356186300015935 Gallop Annabel Teh The Genealogical Seal of the Mughal Emperors of India [Elektronische Daten] [Annabel Teh Gallop] The genealogical seal of the Mughal emperors of India was one of the most potent symbols of Mughal imperial authority. The distinctive design of the seal - a central circle containing the name of the ruling emperor, surrounded by a series of smaller circles, like satellites in orbit, containing the names of his ancestors up to Timūr (1336-1405) each preceded by the filiative ibn - was a self-evident masterpiece of imperial symbolism, in which the authority of the ruling emperor was both legitimised and enhanced by the deliberate reference to his illustrious ancestors. The inscription was designed to be read starting with the ruling emperor's name in the middle, then moving into the outer circle to the name of his immediate predecessor (at 1 o'clock) and, continuing clockwise, finishing up at Timur, who always had pride of place at the top of the seal. In this way, each ruler was expressed as the son of his predecessor, while at the same time, from his central position abutting all the smaller circles, the ruling emperor could be read symbolically as the "son” of each of his ancestors. Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1999 Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Cambridge University Press 9/1(1999-04), 77-140 1356-1863 9:1<77 1999 9 JRA https://doi.org/10.1017/S1356186300015935 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1356186300015935 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Gallop Annabel Teh NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Cambridge University Press 9/1(1999-04), 77-140 1356-1863 9:1<77 1999 9 JRA CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge