This group of five ivory panels are the reassembled elements of a „composite casket,“ so called by scholars because the narrative scenes that adorn them are vignettes from a variety of popular stories and chivalric romances
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Christos Bastis Collection, New York, from 1975; exhibited as a loan to the Brooklyn Museum, 1975-1999, in the major traveling exhibition Africa in Antiquity (Brooklyn, Seattle, New Orleans, The Hague, Netherlands) 1978-1979, and in the exhibition Antiquities from the Christos G
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Mihrab (Prayer Niche)This prayer niche, or mihrab, was originally an architectural element in a theological school (madrasa) in the city of Isfahan. An inscription in the courtyard of this former school, now known as Madrasa Imami, is dated to the year A
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The coffin (12.181.302a, b), the scarab (26.7.432) and the bowl are all on display
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Textile FragmentThe royal textile factories of al-Andalus were famous throughout the medieval world in a period when luxury textiles constituted one of the most valuable possessions in a ruler’s treasury as well as in the trousseaux of wealthy brides
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