Publication Date
7th century AH/end 13th AD
Publication Place
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Batha Museum; Fez
Subject
Carved and hollowed out cedar wood.
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
الارتفاع: 21.6 سم؛ الطول: 107 سم؛ السماكة: 3.5سم
Library
Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID
45.89
Record ID
object;ISL;ma;Mus01_C;25;ar
Library Location
Batha Museum; Fez
Date
7th century AH/end 13th AD
Notes
Part of an almost complete frieze that must belong to a religious building. Its floor is decorated with an inscription in lush, braided Kufic script, indicating the end of verse 73 of Surat Al-Hajj (Sura No. 22). The Kufic letters are full of floral elements in the form of multi-lobed flower halves and five-lobed rosettes that lengthen the angle of inclination. The text is engraved on a floral background decorated with a dense floral composition that leaves no empty space. This decoration uses pine nuts and palm leaves carried on a branch, or decorated with spiral-shaped twists, such as smooth, symmetrical palm leaves with a cup and an elongated edge in the form of a ring, and bilateral palm leaves with veins and grated appendages similar to an acanthus leaf, where the eyes separating the veins, each two alone, take an oval shape resembling the scales of pine nuts.
Sample Text
Naima El Khatib-Boujibar “Wooden Frieze” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;ma;Mus01_C;25;ar
