The Muqarnas Plate Found at Takht-i Sulayman
A New Interpretation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19416383 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yvonne Dold-Samplonius, Yvonne Dold‐Samplonius, Silvia L Harmsen |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 85-94 |
| Publication date | 2005-03-22 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Muqarnas Online (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0732-2992 • E-ISSN: 2211-8993 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/22118993_02201005 |
| OpenAlex | W2025551069 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 1 |
In 1968 the German excavation team at Takht-i Sulay man, Iran, found a 50 cm gypsum plate amid the palace ruins. This thirteenth-century plate was spon taneously recognized to be a muqarnas design. Ulrich Harb published the details of the plate and also sug gested an interpretation of its design;1 Mohammad Yaghan has more recently published other readings.2 In this paper we propose yet a different interpretation, which is more in accordance with surviving buildings of the period and the description of muqarnas by the famous mathematician al-Kashi (ca. 1430)
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art history · Excavation · German · Gypsum · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Engineering · Eurasian Exchange Networks · Historical Studies of Medieval Iberia · History · Philosophy · Geology · Paleontology
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
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| Citation span | 2011 - 2020 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |