carved marble and plaster relief
Egypt
17th Century
Source: Campo, Juan E. "This Blessed Place: Religious Inscriptions in the Ottoman Houses of Cairo".
Recipe Details
Ingredients
marble, plaster
Preparation Steps
Inscriptions were carved into marble slabs and then mounted as lintels above doorways (p. 134). In other cases, they were rendered in plaster relief directly on interior walls (p. 136, fn b).
Original Recipe Text
Inscriptions were carved into marble slabs and then mounted as lintels above doorways (p. 134). In other cases, they were rendered in plaster relief directly on interior walls (p. 136, fn b).
Evidence
"Several houses had poetic epigraphs praising the home and its owner that were carved in marble and mounted in the lintels of the doorways leading to their large ground floor qāʿa."
Remarks
Inscriptions in marble lintels often utilized ornate thuluth script with complex diacritical markings (p. 134). In Bayt al-Dhahabī, the expression 'Yā Muḥammad!' was inscribed in plaster relief on the east wall (p. 136, fn b).
Scientific Analysis
Chemical CompositionCaCO3
Analytical Techniques
Visual analysis
Certainty Level
Inferred
Instrumentally Verified
Not Verified
Metadata
Material Type
ink
ColorWhite
RegionEgypt
Approx. Year1650
Source Information
AuthorCampo, Juan E. "This Blessed Place: Religious Inscriptions in the Ottoman Houses of Cairo".
CollectionBayt al-Suḥaymī and Bayt al-Dhahabī
Language
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