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A slab from a symbolic tomb or coffin decorated with mother-of-pearl and wood
(لوح من قبر أو تابوت رمزي ذو تزيين بالصدف والخشب)

Title	A slab from a symbolic tomb or coffin decorated with mother-of-pearl and wood
Title Original	لوح من قبر أو تابوت رمزي ذو تزيين بالصدف والخشب
Publication Date:	Second century AH / second half of the eighth century AD
Publication Place	- Metropolitan Museum of Art
Subject	Wood (fig), mosaic with bone and four types of wood
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	الارتفاع : 47.6 سم ، العرض : 194.2 سم الحامل : الارتفاع : 62.2 سم ، العرض : 31.7 سم ، القطر :15.2 سم ، الوزن : 44 كغ مع الحامل والغطاء البلاستيكي
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	37.103
Record ID	object;EPM;us;Mus23;20;ar
Library Location	Metropolitan Museum of Art
Date	Second century AH / second half of the eighth century AD
Notes	This panel is the most complete surviving example of its kind and came from the side of a tomb lid or from a case of a multi-volume Qur’an. Similarities to the panel in the collection of the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo mean that the two may have decorated the long sides of a single building in the Ain al-Sira cemetery in Egypt. In addition to their common composition of fig wood inlaid with ivory and other types of wood, both paintings include decorative elements from the ancient Sassanian heritage, and the geometric shapes are derived directly from Roman mosaics, while the wing-like designs in the corners of the arch are of Sassanian origin.
Sample Text	“A tablet from a tomb or a symbolic coffin decorated with mother-of-pearl and wood” within Discover the collections of Islamic art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;us;Mus23;20;ar

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A slab from a symbolic tomb or coffin decorated with mother-of-pearl and wood

(لوح من قبر أو تابوت رمزي ذو تزيين بالصدف والخشب)

Publication Date Second century AH / second half of the eighth century AD

Publication Place - Metropolitan Museum of Art

Subject Wood (fig), mosaic with bone and four types of wood

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions الارتفاع : 47.6 سم ، العرض : 194.2 سم الحامل : الارتفاع : 62.2 سم ، العرض : 31.7 سم ، القطر :15.2 سم ، الوزن : 44 كغ مع الحامل والغطاء البلاستيكي

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID 37.103

Record ID object;EPM;us;Mus23;20;ar

Library Location Metropolitan Museum of Art

Date Second century AH / second half of the eighth century AD

Notes This panel is the most complete surviving example of its kind and came from the side of a tomb lid or from a case of a multi-volume Qur’an. Similarities to the panel in the collection of the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo mean that the two may have decorated the long sides of a single building in the Ain al-Sira cemetery in Egypt. In addition to their common composition of fig wood inlaid with ivory and other types of wood, both paintings include decorative elements from the ancient Sassanian heritage, and the geometric shapes are derived directly from Roman mosaics, while the wing-like designs in the corners of the arch are of Sassanian origin.

Sample Text “A tablet from a tomb or a symbolic coffin decorated with mother-of-pearl and wood” within Discover the collections of Islamic art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;us;Mus23;20;ar