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Automaton rider with lance on the Green Dome, Baghdad

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Description: Automaton rider with lance on the Green Dome, Baghdad

TitleAutomaton rider with lance on the Green Dome, Baghdad

Creator nameUnknown

Creator nationality/cultureUnknown

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date762 AD

Creation date (description)Founded 762

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsUnknown

DimensionsUnknown

LocationBaghdad, Iraq

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsArchitecture, AbbasidIslamic domesIslamic architecture--Middle East

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Chapter 2: Central Islamic Lands

Richard Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar, Marilyn Jenkins-Madina

Description: Islamic Art and Architecture: 650–1250

Islamic Art and Architecture: 650–1250

The architecture and the architectural decoration of the central lands of the Muslim world during the first three centuries of its existence are the result of the encounter of the new Muslim faith and state with the ancient traditions of the Near East...

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Richard Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar, Marilyn Jenkins-Madina

PublisherYale University Press

Copyright© 2001 Oleg Grabar, Elizabeth Ettinghausen, and Marilyn Jenkins-Madina

Related print edition pages: pp.15-79

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00202.002

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Chapter subject tags:Architecture, UmayyadArchitecture, AbbasidArt, UmayyadDecoration and ornament, AbbasidIslamic illumination of books and manuscripts

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