Tashrif al-Ayyam wa-l-‘Usur fi-Sirat al-Malik al-Mansur
| Name of text: | Tashrif al-Ayyam wa-l-‘Usur fi-Sirat al-Malik al-Mansur |
| Author of text: | Ibn ‘Abd al-Zahir |
| Date of text: | 1286 |
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| Name of structure in text: | al-Qasr al Ablaq of Sultan al-Zahir Baybars al-Bunduqdari, Damascus |
| Type of structure in text: | Palace |
| Date of structure in text | 13th C |
| Century of structure 1: | 13 AD |
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| Country in text: | Syria |
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| City in text: | Damascus |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | Walls |
| Description of mosaic in text: | |
| Mosaic date in text: | 13 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | |
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| Bibliography: | Ibn ‘Abd al-Zahir, Tashrif al-Ayyam wa-l-‘Usur fi-Sirat al-Malik al-Mansur, Murad Kami led. (Cairo, 1961), 139, cited in Nasser Rabbat, ‘The Mosaics of the Qubba al-Zahiriyya in Damascus: A Classical Syrian Medium Acquires a Mamluk Signature’, ARAM, 9 (1997), 227-40, pp. 236-7. Abdulfattah, Iman R. and Mamdouh Mohamed Sakr, ‘Glass Mosaics in a Royal Mamluk Hall: Context, Content, and Interpretation’, in Doris Behrens-Abouseif, ed., The Arts of the Mamluks in Egypt and Syria – Evolution and Impact (Bonn: Bonn University Press, 2012), 203-222, p. 203 Kenney, Ellen, ‘Mixed Metaphors: Iconography and Medium in Mamluk Glass Mosaic Decoration’, Artibus Asiae, 66.2 (2006), 175-200, p. 178 |
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| Comments: | This is speculative as al-Zahir does not specify the medium of mosaic. Building no longer extant. |