المؤلف
غير معروف (صناع)
تاريخ النشر
836
مكان النشر
سامراء (صنع) العراق (صنع) العراق (صنع) -
الموضوع
علم الآثار التركيبات المعمارية
النوع
أخرى
اللغة
غير محدد
رقمي
نعم
مخطوط
لا
الأبعاد الفيزيائية
Height: 26cm, Width: 50cm, Depth: 15cm, Thickness: 14.5cm
(Note: Extreme thickness)
المكتبة
Victoria and Albert Museum
معرف أصل المكتبة
A.75-1922
رقم السجل
A.75-1922
موقع المكتبة
قسم الشرق الأوسط
التاريخ
836
ملاحظات
قطعة من إفريز، من الجبس، محفورة بسعفة مجردة؛ العراق (سامراء) القرن التاسع.
نص عينة
الترجمة الصوتية،
Tarihsel bağlam
Samarra was founded by the Abbasid Caliph al-Mu'tasim (r. 833-842) in 836 AD to serve as his imperial capital. The sight chosen was about 125km upstream from Baghdad on the left bank of the Tigris. The founding of new cities was an important way of displaying values of kingship. Al-Mu'tasim ordered the construction of a planned city including a network of canals, streets, monumental mosques, palaces, gardens and racecourses. He also allocated land to military and court officials, who built richly decorated palace complexes and greatly increased the size of the city. His son and successor, Caliph al-Mutawakkil (r. 847-861) ordered the construction of the famous spiral minaret at the great mosque. Construction halted at Samarra in about 880 AD and later was abandoned by the Caliph and his court in 892. At 57 km2, Samarra is today the largest Islamic archaeological site in the world. The construction of the many mosques and palaces at Samarra fostered an early flowering of architectural decoration. What mainly survives today are wall revetments in carved plaster and wall paintings on fine gypsum surfaces. Earlier Iranian (Sassanian) decorative styles influenced much of the carved plaster panels found at Samarra. The decoration was primarily based on vegetal forms but later developed into more abstract motifs. The wall paintings illustrate a wide range of subjects such as geometric patterns and courtly scenes with figurative representations of listening and playing music, banqueting and dancing. Depictions of animals, especially camels and birds also feature on fragments recovered from the site.
Malzemeler ve teknikler
plaster, carved and incised Plaster
Fiziksel açıklama
Fragment of an architectural frieze, probably part of a cornice, plaster, with a large partial fleur-de-lys motif, with dramatically curled volutes, deeply carved (Herzfeld's 'deep-cut' or Third Style) with a cross-hatched or honeycomb-like pattern on the raised surface. The reverse with pieces of palm trunk inserted and several modern nails, in addition to one eyescrew and modern paint.
Üslup
Abbasid