تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 12.15.3

12.15.3

At one side of the enclosure were the gold vessels the sultan had given him: a large oven big enough to hold a seated man inside it, two cauldrons, dishes whose number I do not recall, a number of jugs, a water-skin vessel, a tamīsanda, a table with four legs, and a book-stand, all of pure gold. ʿImād al-Dīn al-Simnānī lifted up two of the enclosure's tent-pegs, one of copper and the other tinned, giving the impression that they were of gold and silver, though they were only as we have described! On his arrival he had given him a hundred thousand dīnārs in dirhams and hundreds of slaves, some of whom he freed and some he took away.