File:Detail, calotte is filled with colored muqarnas. Samaritan's niche from a house in Damascus, Syria. 15th-16th century CE. Islamic Art Museum (Museum für Islamische Kunst), Berlin.jpg

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Object

anonymous: Niche from a Samaritan house in Damascus   
Artist
anonymous 
Author
Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg)
Title
German:
Damaskus-Nische 

Niche from a Samaritan house in Damascus
title QS:P1476,de:"Damaskus-Nische "
label QS:Lde,"Damaskus-Nische "
label QS:Len,"Niche from a Samaritan house in Damascus"
label QS:Lpl,"Nisza z samarytańskiego domu w Damaszku"
Object type niche 
Description
English: Detail, calotte is filled with colored muqarnas. Niche from the district of al-Malik az-Zahir, Damascus, Syria. 15th-16th century CE. This is not an Islamic niche of a mosque, but a Jewish type niche that belonged to Samaritans living in Damascus. It came from a house. There are quotations from the Torah in Samaritan script. Islamic Art Museum (Museum für Islamische Kunst), Berlin, Germany.
Date 20 July 2019, 17:38:47
Medium marble and stone 
Dimensions height: 302 cm (118.8 in) ; width: 245 cm (96.4 in) ; mass: 1,550 kg (3,417.1 lb) 
dimensions QS:P2048,+302U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+245U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1954632
Accession number
583 (Museum of Islamic Art) 
Place of creation Damascus 
Object history
  • 1907: purchased 
References
  • http://www.smb-digital.de/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=1525414&viewType=detailView (German) 
  • https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;de;Mus01;32;en (English)
  • Google Arts & Culture asset ID: EgEgPhj_RXUkEg 
  • SMB-digital ID: 1525414 

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Author Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) 

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