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Wooden plaque bearing decorative drawings
(لوحة خشبية تحمل رسومات زخرفية)

Title	Wooden plaque bearing decorative drawings
Title Original	لوحة خشبية تحمل رسومات زخرفية
Publication Date:	AH 3rd century / AD 9th century
Publication Place	- Museum of Islamic Arts; sluggishness Kairouan
Subject	wood; Decorative drawings.
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	الطول: 135 سم؛ العرض: 27.5 سم
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	BS 105
Record ID	object;ISL;tn;Mus01;10;ar
Library Location	Museum of Islamic Arts; sluggishness Kairouan
Date	AH 3rd century / AD 9th century
Notes	This panel was made of cedar wood, and comes from the ceilings of the prayer hall in the Great Mosque of Kairouan, whose ceiling consists of lintels resting on the pillars and walls towards the direction of the mosque’s tiles in the north-south direction. The mounting panels rest perpendicular to these pieces, and are supported at their ends by carved frieze supports decorated with paintings. The oldest part of the ceilings in the Great Mosque of Kairouan dates back to the 3rd century AH / 9th century AD, and retains decoration of pediments and rosettes. The piece consists of a painting with a red background, made up of four concave-sided squares, inside each square of which are drawn two small, interlocking flowers of green and blue colors, with four corollas. These two flowers form a kind of octagonal star, surrounded by a blue or green circle. Each corolla ends with a bud surrounded by two obtuse branches. These painted ceilings in the Great Mosque of Kairouan constitute the unique artistic collection of Islamic art that has come down to us from the Middle Ages, which makes any attempt to search for the origin of their decoration somewhat difficult. Some decorated ceilings covered the axial tiles in the Great Mosque of Cordoba, but the accepted limit for their dating does not go much beyond the 4th century AH / 10th century AD. The same applies to the magnificent ceilings found in the chapel of the Palatine Church in the city of Palermo, which date back to the 6th century AH / 12th century AD.
Sample Text	Mourad Rammah “Wooden panel with decorative designs” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;tn;Mus01;10;ar

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Wooden plaque bearing decorative drawings

(لوحة خشبية تحمل رسومات زخرفية)

Publication Date AH 3rd century / AD 9th century

Publication Place - Museum of Islamic Arts; sluggishness Kairouan

Subject wood; Decorative drawings.

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions الطول: 135 سم؛ العرض: 27.5 سم

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID BS 105

Record ID object;ISL;tn;Mus01;10;ar

Library Location Museum of Islamic Arts; sluggishness Kairouan

Date AH 3rd century / AD 9th century

Notes This panel was made of cedar wood, and comes from the ceilings of the prayer hall in the Great Mosque of Kairouan, whose ceiling consists of lintels resting on the pillars and walls towards the direction of the mosque’s tiles in the north-south direction. The mounting panels rest perpendicular to these pieces, and are supported at their ends by carved frieze supports decorated with paintings. The oldest part of the ceilings in the Great Mosque of Kairouan dates back to the 3rd century AH / 9th century AD, and retains decoration of pediments and rosettes. The piece consists of a painting with a red background, made up of four concave-sided squares, inside each square of which are drawn two small, interlocking flowers of green and blue colors, with four corollas. These two flowers form a kind of octagonal star, surrounded by a blue or green circle. Each corolla ends with a bud surrounded by two obtuse branches. These painted ceilings in the Great Mosque of Kairouan constitute the unique artistic collection of Islamic art that has come down to us from the Middle Ages, which makes any attempt to search for the origin of their decoration somewhat difficult. Some decorated ceilings covered the axial tiles in the Great Mosque of Cordoba, but the accepted limit for their dating does not go much beyond the 4th century AH / 10th century AD. The same applies to the magnificent ceilings found in the chapel of the Palatine Church in the city of Palermo, which date back to the 6th century AH / 12th century AD.

Sample Text Mourad Rammah “Wooden panel with decorative designs” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;tn;Mus01;10;ar