Publication Date
872 - 901 / 1468- 1496
Publication Place
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Islamic Museum, Al-Haram Al-Sharif
Subject
Wood laminated with copper, carved and interlaced.
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
الارتفاع: 445 سم؛ العرض: 274 سم؛ السمك: 15 سم
Library
Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID
144
Record ID
object;ISL;pa;Mus01;23;ar
Library Location
Islamic Museum, Al-Haram Al-Sharif
Date
872 - 901 / 1468- 1496
Notes
The piece is a door with two leaves of equal width and height. It was made of wood and its outer face was laminated with copper, leaving its back unlaminated. Surrounding each shutter is a copper frame that forms a frame for the simple-to-assemble copper decoration, which consists of small plates in the shape of rhombuses, each of which is fastened at its four corners with copper nails, in addition to a fifth nail in its center. These plates cover the entire surfaces of the two doors of the door. At the bottom, top, and sides of the shutter, where the decoration meets the frames, the decoration consists of half-lozenges or triangles. On the edge of the shutter in the central region, written in third Mamluk script, lengthwise and repeated twice, is a text that reads: “The Sultan of Islam and the Muslims, the killer of the polytheists, the reviver of justice in the worlds, the honorable King Abu Al-Nasr Qaytbay, the glory of his victory.” At the top of the door, there is another late inscription referring to the restoration work carried out in 946 / 1540 by the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (r. 926-974 / 1520-1566). It is worth noting that this door is one of three similar doors in the Islamic Museum’s possession, all of which are in excellent condition, perhaps due to the restorations carried out by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. The three doors were brought from the Rock Excavator while carrying out restoration work on the dome in the sixties of the twentieth century, and the doors were replaced with wooden ones that were used in Jerusalem for this purpose. There is still a fourth Mamluk door in its location in the Dome of the Rock. It is noteworthy that the Dome of the Rock building has four doors in the four cardinal directions.
Sample Text
Nazmi Al-Ju'beh "Gate of the Dome of the Rock" in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;pa;Mus01;23;ar
