Artuqid Palace
Name of structure: | Artuqid Palace |
Extended name of structure: | |
Type of structure: | Pool |
Country or main area: | Anatolia |
Region within country or main area: | |
City or area within region: | Diyarbakr |
Date of structure: | 13th century |
Century of structure 1: | 13 AD |
Century of structure 2: | |
Specific place of mosaic: | Pool with a fountain in the centre of a courtyard, presumably originally set beneath a dome with a skylight. |
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | Inlaid with glass mosaics and marble of various colours in geometric patterns. |
Date of mosaic: | 13th century |
Century of mosaic 1: | 13 AD |
Century of mosaic 2: | |
Silver tessera at site: | |
Gold tessera at site: | |
Colour tessera at site: | Yes |
Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)? | |
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Bibliography of mainly technical resources: | Hillenbrand, Robert, Islamic Architecture: Form, function and meaning (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1994), p. 417 |
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Record Incomplete |