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A prayer rug with a mihrab
(سجادة صلاة، عليها محراب)

Title	A prayer rug with a mihrab
Title Original	سجادة صلاة، عليها محراب
Publication Date:	Twelfth-thirteenth / eighteenth-nineteenth centuries
Publication Place	- Museum of Civilizations \| Museum of Oriental Art Giuseppe Tucci
Subject	Soft silk embroidered with metallic threads.
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	الارتفاع: 265 سم؛ العرض: 160 سم
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	12544
Record ID	object;ISL;it;Mus01;4;ar
Library Location	Museum of Civilizations \| Museum of Oriental Art Giuseppe Tucci
Date	Twelfth-thirteenth / eighteenth-nineteenth centuries
Notes	The fabric is woven with soft natural silk in red, black and light yellow, and its surface is embroidered with silver or gold copper metal threads braided on cotton thread. The main drawing represents the imam’s mihrab, and in the middle of the upper section there is a drawing of a hanging mosque lamp. At the top and on both sides, we find drawings filling the carpet except for the mihrab, where shapes of Arab flowers and plants are allocated, such as palm trees intersecting in various shapes or with half palm trees inside other plants.
Sample Text	Paola Torre “Prayer rug, with a mihrab” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;it;Mus01;4;ar

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A prayer rug with a mihrab

(سجادة صلاة، عليها محراب)

Publication Date Twelfth-thirteenth / eighteenth-nineteenth centuries

Publication Place - Museum of Civilizations | Museum of Oriental Art Giuseppe Tucci

Subject Soft silk embroidered with metallic threads.

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions الارتفاع: 265 سم؛ العرض: 160 سم

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID 12544

Record ID object;ISL;it;Mus01;4;ar

Library Location Museum of Civilizations | Museum of Oriental Art Giuseppe Tucci

Date Twelfth-thirteenth / eighteenth-nineteenth centuries

Notes The fabric is woven with soft natural silk in red, black and light yellow, and its surface is embroidered with silver or gold copper metal threads braided on cotton thread. The main drawing represents the imam’s mihrab, and in the middle of the upper section there is a drawing of a hanging mosque lamp. At the top and on both sides, we find drawings filling the carpet except for the mihrab, where shapes of Arab flowers and plants are allocated, such as palm trees intersecting in various shapes or with half palm trees inside other plants.

Sample Text Paola Torre “Prayer rug, with a mihrab” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;it;Mus01;4;ar