Publication Date
Seventh-eighth / thirteenth-fourteenth centuries
Publication Place
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National Archaeological Museum
Subject
gold; spill; prominent; Metal wicks.
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
الطول: 47 سم؛ العرض: 2.8 سم؛ طول العليقة: 11 سم
Library
Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID
51033
Record ID
object;ISL;es;Mus01;23;ar
Library Location
National Archaeological Museum
Date
Seventh-eighth / thirteenth-fourteenth centuries
Notes
The (Hayat) necklace is made of gold, with a body consisting of four “qunuts” alternating with rectangular beads. Each end bears two pyramidal pieces facing each other from the base and holding the clasp. Three bushes were hung on the knot; The one in the middle consists of two rectangular beads similar to those in the body of the necklace, and a flat ornament called a “chair” – originally decorated in the middle with enamel that has disappeared today. The chair consists of two plates with an empty space between them, a feature similar to that of the Mondujar Nasrid Treasure to which it belongs and the Bentarik Treasure (Almería); This structure was transformed into a lotus flower for the hand of Fatima. However, more recently, we have been able to guess that it has more definite predecessors in Central Asia, with comparisons in the Ottoman fabric. More direct references can be made to the paintings of the Caliphate-Cordoban palace of Madinat al-Zahra, where the side pendants are composed of a rectangular bead, a smaller spherical pearl, and a pyramidal tip. As for the techniques used, they are the perforated plate for the containers and the metal wicks for the bushes. It is a matter of work executed in a delicate and delicate manner. The necklace was assembled in an arbitrary manner, as its elements were used, each one separately, to decorate clothes, hats or hairstyles, as evidenced by literary sources. We can read in one manuscript that “women used to wear gold in braids on their heads.”
Sample Text
Ángela Franco “Hold” within Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;es;Mus01;23;ar
