Museo de Arte Islámico - fotos
Fotos e informaciones de una selección de objetos del Museo de Arte Islámico, situado en el Museo de Pérgamo en la Isla de los Museos de Berlín.
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15th - 16th century, Damascus, Syria
From a no longer existing private house in the district Malik az-Zahir.
Marble and colored stones, partly painted.
height 302 cm, width 245 cm, depth approx. 70 cm
Although inspired by the Mihrāb architecture in mosques this is not a prayer niche. The wall niche comes from a middle-class house inhabited by Samaritans - a religious community related to Judaism. The Samaritan inscriptions in the spandrels of the arch and on the rosettes on the back wall are quotations from the Old Testament (Leviticus 2 and 5).
The marble facing, the stalactite vault and the relief are typical decorative elements of the Mamluk period (in Damascus 1250 - 1516). Several features point to the beginning of the Ottoman period, when this building tradition was first cultivated in the Arab provincial cities.
(From information and texts by the Museum of Islamic Art Berlin. Transl.: UiU)
© Photos: Haupt & Binder
Fotos e informaciones de una selección de objetos del Museo de Arte Islámico, situado en el Museo de Pérgamo en la Isla de los Museos de Berlín.