Reception Room (Qa’a)This interior, a splendid example of a wood-paneled reception chamber (qa‘a) from a private house in Damascus, is among the earliest extant, nearly complete interiors of its kind, dated by an inscription to A
Here is a link to download the audio instead. Playlist 6763.
collection/search/307975 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/307975 Link
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2015, p. 108, fig. 65.
Drawn to universities and large cities, Franciscan and Dominican friars lived and preached among the people, supporting themselves by working and begging for food.
1280–1300 Manuscript Leaf with the Martyrdom of Saint Peter Martyr in an Initial P,
Cat. no. 50.2, p. 160-161. Quilter, Jeffrey.
on the Tiwanaku Frontier.� Latin American Antiquity 12, no. 1 (2001): 67-83. http
Inscription: Inscribed in ink on mount, recto BL: Nubie.“; inscribed in ink on mount, recto BC: „Propylon du Temple de Dandour. (Tropique du Cancer)“; inscribed in ink on mount, recto BR: „No
collection/search/287194 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/287194 Link
Art of the First Cities surveys the evolution of art and culture in the land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates and their impact on the emerging cities of the ancient world—from the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean across Central Asia and along the Gulf to the Indus Valley—during one of the most seminal and creative periods in history.
The exhibition is made possible by Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman.
Inscription: Inscribed in pencil on mount, recto TRC: „93“; inscribed in ink on mount, recto BL: Nubie.“; inscribed in ink on mount, recto BC: „Vue du pronaos du Temple de Dandour. (Tropique du Cancer)“; inscribed in ink on mount, recto BR: „No
collection/search/287195 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/287195 Link
