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Part of a fountain
(جزء من فسقية)

Title	Part of a fountain
Title Original	جزء من فسقية
Publication Place	- National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Arts
Subject	Carved white marble.
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	الطول: 51.5 سم؛ العرض: 21 سم؛ السماكة: 7.5 سم
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	II.S.43
Record ID	object;ISL;dz;Mus01;47;ar
Library Location	National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Arts
Notes	A piece of a fountain carved in relief, triangular in shape, two parts of which have been reshaped: two straight sides and the third curved. The scene, of which only one part has survived, depicts a falcon hunt. We distinguish in the scene the knight's chest and part of his thigh; He appears to be wearing a pleated robe tied at the waist with a wide belt, and is holding a white weapon in his right hand. Behind him appears a beggar, his face disfigured and his lower limbs amputated. He is wearing a robe open in front and tied to the waist with a less wide belt. He is holding a dead hare in his right hand, and raising in his left hand a falcon with only a leg and part of a tail visible, above the horse’s shin, which is missing the lower part. Also visible is part of the trunk of a tree, which may be a palm tree, behind the bazaar. On the left side of this scene appears a two-line inscription in Kufic letters. The first line is difficult to read, but the second line reads as follows: “…four hundred and…the work of the son of…”. “Yen” can only be interpreted as the last syllable of a decimal number, which may be forty, or it may be seventy or ninety.
Sample Text	Leila Merabet “Fragment of a fountain” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;dz;Mus01;47;ar

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Part of a fountain

(جزء من فسقية)

Publication Place - National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Arts

Subject Carved white marble.

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions الطول: 51.5 سم؛ العرض: 21 سم؛ السماكة: 7.5 سم

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID II.S.43

Record ID object;ISL;dz;Mus01;47;ar

Library Location National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Arts

Notes A piece of a fountain carved in relief, triangular in shape, two parts of which have been reshaped: two straight sides and the third curved. The scene, of which only one part has survived, depicts a falcon hunt. We distinguish in the scene the knight's chest and part of his thigh; He appears to be wearing a pleated robe tied at the waist with a wide belt, and is holding a white weapon in his right hand. Behind him appears a beggar, his face disfigured and his lower limbs amputated. He is wearing a robe open in front and tied to the waist with a less wide belt. He is holding a dead hare in his right hand, and raising in his left hand a falcon with only a leg and part of a tail visible, above the horse’s shin, which is missing the lower part. Also visible is part of the trunk of a tree, which may be a palm tree, behind the bazaar. On the left side of this scene appears a two-line inscription in Kufic letters. The first line is difficult to read, but the second line reads as follows: “…four hundred and…the work of the son of…”. “Yen” can only be interpreted as the last syllable of a decimal number, which may be forty, or it may be seventy or ninety.

Sample Text Leila Merabet “Fragment of a fountain” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;dz;Mus01;47;ar