Note 79 — PRINCE AHMAD AND THE FAIRY PERI-BANU.[63]
Richard Francis Burton translation
“Jám-i-Jamshíd” is a well worn commonplace in Moslem folk-lore; but commentators cannot agree whether “Jám” be = a mirror or a cup. In the latter sense it would represent the Cyathomantic cup of the Patriarch Joseph and the symbolic bowl of Nestor. Jamshíd may be translated either Jam the Bright or the Cup of the Sun: this ancient King is the Solomon of the grand old Guebres.