نویسنده
Unknown (makers)
تاریخ انتشار
836
محل انتشار
Samarra (made) -
موضوع
Architectural Fittings Archaeology
نوع
دیگر
زبان
نامشخص
دیجیتال
بله
نسخه خطی
خیر
ابعاد فیزیکی
Height: 7.2cm
(Note: diagonal measurement), Width: 7.7cm, Depth: 2.7cm
کتابخانه
Victoria and Albert Museum
شناسه دارایی کتابخانه
A.98-1922
شماره ثبت
A.98-1922
محل کتابخانه
Middle East Section
تاریخ
836
یادداشتها
Fragment of a pictorial frieze, plaster, press-moulded and carved with the head of a camel, traces of blue pigment; Iraq (Samarra), 9th century.
متن نمونه
Transliteration,
Tarihsel bağlam
Samarra was founded by the Abbasid Caliph al-Mu'tasim (r. 833-842) in 836 AD to serve as his imperial capital. The sight chosen was about 125km upstream from Baghdad on the left bank of the Tigris. The founding of new cities was an important way of displaying values of kingship. Al-Mu'tasim ordered the construction of a planned city including a network of canals, streets, monumental mosques, palaces, gardens and racecourses. He also allocated land to military and court officials, who built richly decorated palace complexes and greatly increased the size of the city. His son and successor, Caliph al-Mutawakkil (r. 847-861) ordered the construction of the famous spiral minaret at the great mosque. Construction halted at Samarra in about 880 AD and later was abandoned by the Caliph and his court in 892. At 57 km2, Samarra is today the largest Islamic archaeological site in the world. The construction of the many mosques and palaces at Samarra fostered an early flowering of architectural decoration. What mainly survives today are wall revetments in carved plaster and wall paintings on fine gypsum surfaces. Earlier Iranian (Sassanian) decorative styles influenced much of the carved plaster panels found at Samarra. The decoration was primarily based on vegetal forms but later developed into more abstract motifs. The wall paintings illustrate a wide range of subjects such as geometric patterns and courtly scenes with figurative representations of listening and playing music, banqueting and dancing. Depictions of animals, especially camels and birds also feature on fragments recovered from the site.
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Plaster, moulded, carved and painted Plaster
Fiziksel açıklama
Fragment of a pictorial frieze, plaster, press-moulded and carved with a camel's head, details of the the ear, eye, mount and flaring nostrils in low relief. Traces of blue pigment, possibly lazurite along the upper part of nose where the head joined up with the ground. Originally part of a frieze depicting a procession of camels
Üslup
Abbasid
