File:Detail, calotte is filled with colored muqarnas. Samaritan's niche from a house in Damascus, Syria. 15th-16th century CE. Islamic Art Museum (Museum für Islamische Kunst), Berlin.jpg
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Summary
Object
anonymous: Niche from a Samaritan house in Damascus
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German: Damaskus-Nische  Niche from a Samaritan house in Damascus |
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| Object type |
niche |
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| Description |
English: Detail, calotte is filled with colored muqarnas. Niche from the district of al-Malik az-Zahir, Damascus, Syria. 15th-16th century CE. This is not an Islamic niche of a mosque, but a Jewish type niche that belonged to Samaritans living in Damascus. It came from a house. There are quotations from the Torah in Samaritan script. Islamic Art Museum (Museum für Islamische Kunst), Berlin, Germany. |
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| Date | 20 July 2019, 17:38:47 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium |
marble and stone |
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| Dimensions |
height: 302 cm (118.8 in) ; width: 245 cm (96.4 in) ; mass: 1,550 kg (3,417.1 lb) |
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| Accession number |
583 (Museum of Islamic Art) |
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| Place of creation |
Damascus |
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Photograph
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| Source | Own work |
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Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) ,_Berlin.jpg#P170){kind=small} |
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