fresco
Jordan
8th Century
Source: Fuat Sezgin, Science and Technology in Islam, Volume II: Catalogue of the Collection of Instruments of the Institute for the History of Arabic and Islamic Sciences: Astronomy. Frankfurt am Main: Institut für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften, 2010.
Recipe Details
Evidence
"in the dome of which the fresco of a celestial atlas is preserved. Alois Musil dealt with the Umaiyad palace from the time of 711-715 in his essays and monographs from 1902, and Fritz Saxl and Arthur Beer pointed out the importance of this star chart for the history of astronomy."
Remarks
The fresco depicts a celestial atlas containing approximately 400 stars, constellations, and zodiac signs with their coordinates (p. 9). It was created for an Umayyad prince between 711-715 AD (p. 9). A reconstruction of the map was produced by M. Stein to better visualize the arrangement in the dome of the caldarium (p. 10). The star chart is cited as significant evidence of early Islamic astronomical knowledge (p. 9).
Scientific Analysis
Analytical Techniques
Visual inspection
Photography
Cartographic reconstruction
Certainty Level
Inferred
Instrumentally Verified
Not Verified
Metadata
Material Type
pigment
RegionJordan
Approx. Year750
Source Information
AuthorFuat Sezgin, Science and Technology in Islam, Volume II: Catalogue of the Collection of Instruments of the Institute for the History of Arabic and Islamic Sciences: Astronomy. Frankfurt am Main: Institut für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften, 2010.
Collectiondome of the caldarium of the small castle Quṣair ‘Amra (east of ‘Ammān in today’s Jordan)
Language
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