Scott Redford
Biographic Data
| ID | 1704615 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Scott Redford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Redford |
| SIGNATURE | REDFORD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0565-6426 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The “Halep Arki” (Aleppo Channel), a Mamluk Era Water System for Aleppo
Due to its low rainfall and limited potential for water retention, northern Syria has always had access to and control of water as one of the main features of states in the region aiming to maintain their rule. This article introduces new information about the Mamluk period water adduction system of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, which brought water to the Quwayq River, the city’s most important source of water. A newly documented part of th…
Flags of the Seljuk sultanate of Anatolia
We know more about flags, banners, and pennants of most pre-modern societies from their representation than from actual surviving textiles. This paper proposes ideas about what the flags of the Rum Seljuk dynasty, which ruled in today’s Turkey in the 12th and 13th centuries, might have looked like. It draws on representations of flags in contemporaneous and later manuscripts, textual and inscriptional references, as well as the representation of …
Ceramics and Society in Medieval Anatolia
Paper, Stone, Scissors
Portable Palaces
This essay examines two categories of portable objects: ceramics and ephemeral architecture (such as tents, palanquins, litters) for clues to the transmission of ideas about palatial architecture and the creation of a shared taste for a certain kind of palatial form and decoration between Christian and Muslim states whose artistic production is usually considered separately. The time period investigated is the twelfth to fourteenth centuries, and…
Sinop in the Summer of 1215
A detailed analysis of the Seljuk inscriptions from the citadel of the Black Sea port of Sinop serves as the basis for a discussion of Anatolian Seljuk history, epigraphy, citadel architecture, and military and administrative organization and patronage. Because all of these inscriptions date to a 6 month period in the year 1215, they offer a circumscribed but profound introduction to these issues at one time and in one place
A Newly Read Inscription on the Walls of Antalya, Turkey
Founded by Oleg Grabar in 1983, Muqarnas is the first academic journal devoted to art, architectural history, archaeology, as well as all aspects of Islamic visual and material cultures, historical and contemporary. Full-length articles are accompanied by shorter submissions grouped under a separate section titled “Notes and Sources,” for which we particularly welcome studies that introduce textual and visual primary sources. Muqarnas is sponsore…
A Newly Read Inscription on the Walls of Antalya, Turkey
“What Have You Done for Anatolia Today?”
“What Have You Done for Anatolia Today?”
Founded by Oleg Grabar in 1983, Muqarnas is the first academic journal devoted to art, architectural history, archaeology, as well as all aspects of Islamic visual and material cultures, historical and contemporary. Full-length articles are accompanied by shorter submissions grouped under a separate section titled “Notes and Sources,” for which we particularly welcome studies that introduce textual and visual primary sources. Muqarnas is sponsore…
Serçe Limanı, an Eleventh-Century Shipwreck, Volume 1
A Historical Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire
Landscape and the State in Medieval Anatolia: Seljuk Gardens and Pavilions of Alanya, Turkey
This study, focusing on the Rum Seljuk dynasty in thirteenth-century Anatolia, combines local history, geography, art history, and archaeology to examine instances of an only partially understood garden tradition in one corner of the medieval Mediterranean. Gardens, and their architecture, have been neglected, not only because of the paucity of remains, the architecture they inspired was not monumental and relied strongly on a sense of place, and…
Mittelalterliche Tierreliefs in Anatolien und Mesopotamien
Luster and Fritware Production and Distribution in Medieval Syria
The production of glazed fritware (artificial paste bodied) ceramics in medieval Syria is examined in the light of neutron activation analysis of an excavated sample from the site of Gritille. Reevaluation casts doubt on two main commonplaces of Islamic ceramic history: 1) the decorative technique of lustering, used on some of these fritwares, was highly restricted; and 2) the production of such luxury ceramics in the medieval Islamic world in ge…
Tille Höyük I
Glazed Calcareous Clay Ceramics from Gritille, Turkey
The Seljuqs of Rum and the Antique
Glazed Calcareous Clay Ceramics From Gritille, Turkey
Resultats de l'analyse chimique par activation neutronique (Instrumental Neutronic Activation Analysis) de 168 echantillons de poteries medievales provenant de Gritille (Turquie), dont 37 sont en argile calcaire vernissee. Ces recherches ont eu lieu dans le cadre d'un projet d'etude de la production de ceramique de Syrie et de Jazira, au 12eme et 13eme siecles
The Seljuqs of Rum and the Antique
There are walls reared up, their construction as variegated as that of the brazen heavens. In between flows a river bridged by tall arches which (by the Maker of Heaven!) you would not think to be composite, but rather to have grown up naturally as a single block of stone. If a sculptor like Pheidias were to see them, he would admire their exact evenness and lack of inclination. Between the build
The Alaeddin Mosque in Konya Reconsidered
How Islamic Is It? The Innsbruck Plate and Its Setting
How Islamic Is It? The Innsbruck Plate and Its Setting
Anadolu Kümbetleri Selçuklu Dönemi (Tombtowers of Anatolia. Vol. 1, The Seljuk period), by Orhan Cezmi Tuncer. 368 pages, Güven Matbaasi, Ankara1986. - Anadolu Selçuklu Mimarisi ve Moğollar (Anatolian…
Anadolu Kümbetleri Selçuklu Dönemi (Tombtowers of Anatolia. Vol. 1, The Seljuk period), by Orhan Cezmi Tuncer. 368 pages, Güven Matbaasi, Ankara1986. - Anadolu Selçuklu Mimarisi ve Moğollar (Anatolian Seljuk architecture and the Mongols), by Orhan Cezmi Tuncer. 116 pages. Vakıflar Müdürlüğü, Ankara1987. - Volume 22 Issue 1
Excavations at Gritille (1982–1984)
Gritille is the modern name for a mound lying on the right bank of the Euphrates River in southeast Turkey. Four years of excavation by a team led by Professor Richard S. Ellis of Bryn Mawr College concentrated on uncovering two main occupation levels bracketing the site's long sequence, the Neolithic and the Medieval. This article will focus on the last three seasons of excavation on top of the mound. The mound of Gritille lies 10 km. upstream f…
Luster and Fritware Production and Distribution in Medieval Syria
The production of glazed fritware (artificial paste bodied) ceramics in medieval Syria is examined in the light of neutron activation analysis of an excavated sample from the site of Gritille. Reevaluation casts doubt on two main commonplaces of Islamic ceramic history: 1) the decorative technique of lustering, used on some of these fritwares, was highly restricted; and 2) the production of such luxury ceramics in the medieval Islamic world in ge…
Portable Palaces
This essay examines two categories of portable objects: ceramics and ephemeral architecture (such as tents, palanquins, litters) for clues to the transmission of ideas about palatial architecture and the creation of a shared taste for a certain kind of palatial form and decoration between Christian and Muslim states whose artistic production is usually considered separately. The time period investigated is the twelfth to fourteenth centuries, and…
Excavations at Gritille (1982–1984)
Gritille is the modern name for a mound lying on the right bank of the Euphrates River in southeast Turkey. Four years of excavation by a team led by Professor Richard S. Ellis of Bryn Mawr College concentrated on uncovering two main occupation levels bracketing the site's long sequence, the Neolithic and the Medieval. This article will focus on the last three seasons of excavation on top of the mound. The mound of Gritille lies 10 km. upstream f…
Excavations at Gritille (1982–1984)
Gritille is the modern name for a mound lying on the right bank of the Euphrates River in southeast Turkey. Four years of excavation by a team led by Professor Richard S. Ellis of Bryn Mawr College concentrated on uncovering two main occupation levels bracketing the site's long sequence, the Neolithic and the Medieval. This article will focus on the last three seasons of excavation on top of the mound. The mound of Gritille lies 10 km. upstream f…
Anadolu Kümbetleri Selçuklu Dönemi (Tombtowers of Anatolia. Vol. 1, The Seljuk period), by Orhan Cezmi Tuncer. 368 pages, Güven Matbaasi, Ankara1986. - Anadolu Selçuklu Mimarisi ve Moğollar (Anatolian…
Anadolu Kümbetleri Selçuklu Dönemi (Tombtowers of Anatolia. Vol. 1, The Seljuk period), by Orhan Cezmi Tuncer. 368 pages, Güven Matbaasi, Ankara1986. - Anadolu Selçuklu Mimarisi ve Moğollar (Anatolian Seljuk architecture and the Mongols), by Orhan Cezmi Tuncer. 116 pages. Vakıflar Müdürlüğü, Ankara1987. - Volume 22 Issue 1
How Islamic Is It? The Innsbruck Plate and Its Setting
How Islamic Is It? The Innsbruck Plate and Its Setting
The Alaeddin Mosque in Konya Reconsidered
The Seljuqs of Rum and the Antique
There are walls reared up, their construction as variegated as that of the brazen heavens. In between flows a river bridged by tall arches which (by the Maker of Heaven!) you would not think to be composite, but rather to have grown up naturally as a single block of stone. If a sculptor like Pheidias were to see them, he would admire their exact evenness and lack of inclination. Between the build
The Seljuqs of Rum and the Antique
Glazed Calcareous Clay Ceramics From Gritille, Turkey
Resultats de l'analyse chimique par activation neutronique (Instrumental Neutronic Activation Analysis) de 168 echantillons de poteries medievales provenant de Gritille (Turquie), dont 37 sont en argile calcaire vernissee. Ces recherches ont eu lieu dans le cadre d'un projet d'etude de la production de ceramique de Syrie et de Jazira, au 12eme et 13eme siecles
Glazed Calcareous Clay Ceramics from Gritille, Turkey
Luster and Fritware Production and Distribution in Medieval Syria
The production of glazed fritware (artificial paste bodied) ceramics in medieval Syria is examined in the light of neutron activation analysis of an excavated sample from the site of Gritille. Reevaluation casts doubt on two main commonplaces of Islamic ceramic history: 1) the decorative technique of lustering, used on some of these fritwares, was highly restricted; and 2) the production of such luxury ceramics in the medieval Islamic world in ge…
Tille Höyük I
Landscape and the State in Medieval Anatolia: Seljuk Gardens and Pavilions of Alanya, Turkey
This study, focusing on the Rum Seljuk dynasty in thirteenth-century Anatolia, combines local history, geography, art history, and archaeology to examine instances of an only partially understood garden tradition in one corner of the medieval Mediterranean. Gardens, and their architecture, have been neglected, not only because of the paucity of remains, the architecture they inspired was not monumental and relied strongly on a sense of place, and…
Mittelalterliche Tierreliefs in Anatolien und Mesopotamien
A Historical Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire
Serçe Limanı, an Eleventh-Century Shipwreck, Volume 1
“What Have You Done for Anatolia Today?”
“What Have You Done for Anatolia Today?”
Founded by Oleg Grabar in 1983, Muqarnas is the first academic journal devoted to art, architectural history, archaeology, as well as all aspects of Islamic visual and material cultures, historical and contemporary. Full-length articles are accompanied by shorter submissions grouped under a separate section titled “Notes and Sources,” for which we particularly welcome studies that introduce textual and visual primary sources. Muqarnas is sponsore…
A Newly Read Inscription on the Walls of Antalya, Turkey
Founded by Oleg Grabar in 1983, Muqarnas is the first academic journal devoted to art, architectural history, archaeology, as well as all aspects of Islamic visual and material cultures, historical and contemporary. Full-length articles are accompanied by shorter submissions grouped under a separate section titled “Notes and Sources,” for which we particularly welcome studies that introduce textual and visual primary sources. Muqarnas is sponsore…
A Newly Read Inscription on the Walls of Antalya, Turkey
Sinop in the Summer of 1215
A detailed analysis of the Seljuk inscriptions from the citadel of the Black Sea port of Sinop serves as the basis for a discussion of Anatolian Seljuk history, epigraphy, citadel architecture, and military and administrative organization and patronage. Because all of these inscriptions date to a 6 month period in the year 1215, they offer a circumscribed but profound introduction to these issues at one time and in one place
Portable Palaces
This essay examines two categories of portable objects: ceramics and ephemeral architecture (such as tents, palanquins, litters) for clues to the transmission of ideas about palatial architecture and the creation of a shared taste for a certain kind of palatial form and decoration between Christian and Muslim states whose artistic production is usually considered separately. The time period investigated is the twelfth to fourteenth centuries, and…
Paper, Stone, Scissors
Ceramics and Society in Medieval Anatolia
Flags of the Seljuk sultanate of Anatolia
We know more about flags, banners, and pennants of most pre-modern societies from their representation than from actual surviving textiles. This paper proposes ideas about what the flags of the Rum Seljuk dynasty, which ruled in today’s Turkey in the 12th and 13th centuries, might have looked like. It draws on representations of flags in contemporaneous and later manuscripts, textual and inscriptional references, as well as the representation of …
The “Halep Arki” (Aleppo Channel), a Mamluk Era Water System for Aleppo
Due to its low rainfall and limited potential for water retention, northern Syria has always had access to and control of water as one of the main features of states in the region aiming to maintain their rule. This article introduces new information about the Mamluk period water adduction system of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, which brought water to the Quwayq River, the city’s most important source of water. A newly documented part of th…
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