Publication Date
Eleventh/seventeenth century
Publication Place
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Royal Museum, National Museum of Scotland NMS
Subject
Woven silk colored red, green and gold.
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
الطول: 231 سم؛ العرض: 78 سم
Library
Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID
A. 1981.204
Record ID
object;ISL;uk;Mus03;47;ar
Library Location
Royal Museum, National Museum of Scotland NMS
Date
Eleventh/seventeenth century
Notes
A woven silk grave cover bears a design composed of repeating rows of broken lines on a dark green ground, each line contained within a narrow frame containing the testimony: “There is no god but God and Muhammad is the Messenger of God” in white with red borders on a dark green ground. The narrow frames above include prayers for the Prophet, and the frames below them include invitations to the four caliphs, Abu Bakr, Omar, Uthman, and Ali, and to the companions of the Prophet, and between the frames appear the words God and Muhammad superimposed on each other. The coffins of important figures in Ottoman Turkey were wrapped in different types of fabric, similar to this piece, with its broken decoration of written invitations. It is believed that these textiles were made to resemble the covering of the Kaaba in Mecca. The oldest textiles of this type were dated to the eleventh / seventeenth century, and the most recent to the thirteenth / nineteenth century.
Sample Text
Ulrike Al-Khamis “Tomb Cover” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;uk;Mus03;47;ar
