Plaque

ca. 1470 (late Medieval)

28.5 cm 6.5 cm

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This plaque was probably originally set into a piece of furniture in a madrasa, or theological college, built by Sultan Qaitbay (1467-1496), ruler of the Mamluk Dynasty and an active patron of the arts. The inscription in "thuluth" script is an invocation based on two verses o...

Artifact

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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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2
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