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Geometric braided wall panel
(لوحة جدارية ذات تضفير هندسي)

Title	Geometric braided wall panel
Title Original	لوحة جدارية ذات تضفير هندسي
Publication Date:	Ninth century AH / fifteenth century AD
Publication Place	- Metropolitan Museum of Art
Subject	Multicolored marble, mosaic
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	الارتفاع : 118.1 سم العرض : 59.7 سم العمق : 12.7 سم الوزن : 279 رطل /126.6 كغ
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	1970.327.8
Record ID	object;EPM;us;Mus23;40;ar
Library Location	Metropolitan Museum of Art
Date	Ninth century AH / fifteenth century AD
Notes	The piece is a multi-colored marble mosaic that decorated the interior walls of religious institutions and palaces in Egypt and Syria during the Mamluk era. This example is from an unknown building that may have decorated the lower strip of the wall, but similar mosaics also appear on the mihrab, arches, and even tombstones of that era. The interlaced tiles of contrasting colors that form the borders of this mosaic, as well as the basic rectangular panels underneath, are also a distinctive element of Mamluk architectural decoration.
Sample Text	“Geometric braided wall painting” within Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;us;Mus23;40;ar

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Geometric braided wall panel

(لوحة جدارية ذات تضفير هندسي)

Publication Date Ninth century AH / fifteenth century AD

Publication Place - Metropolitan Museum of Art

Subject Multicolored marble, mosaic

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions الارتفاع : 118.1 سم العرض : 59.7 سم العمق : 12.7 سم الوزن : 279 رطل /126.6 كغ

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID 1970.327.8

Record ID object;EPM;us;Mus23;40;ar

Library Location Metropolitan Museum of Art

Date Ninth century AH / fifteenth century AD

Notes The piece is a multi-colored marble mosaic that decorated the interior walls of religious institutions and palaces in Egypt and Syria during the Mamluk era. This example is from an unknown building that may have decorated the lower strip of the wall, but similar mosaics also appear on the mihrab, arches, and even tombstones of that era. The interlaced tiles of contrasting colors that form the borders of this mosaic, as well as the basic rectangular panels underneath, are also a distinctive element of Mamluk architectural decoration.

Sample Text “Geometric braided wall painting” within Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;us;Mus23;40;ar