Frags. Of Glazed Tiles
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1895
name: label: Donor Name
content: Rev. S G. Wilson
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "From the ruins of [the palace of] Khan-Ghazan. Earthenware of gray clay, decoration on one side only - Trangular. Royal blue ground with inlaid design in white and dark green".
label: Notes
content: See: entry on Ghazaniyya, the Funerary complex of Ghazan Khan, here https://archnet.org/sites/1677. It indicates that "The ruler of Persia between 1295 and 1304, Ghazan Khan built his own tomb within a new suburb he founded outside the walls of Tabriz. The tomb was part of the Ghazaniya complex of buildings situated within a large garden; according to accounts of the period the complex included a palace, monastery, two madrasas, an academy of philosophy, a hospital, library, observatory, pavilion and fountain. The tomb, begun in 1297, is reported to have been a tall twelve-sided domed tower with a decorative band depicting the signs of the zodiac. Although the tomb remained standing during the nineteenth century, albeit in damaged condition, by the time of Wilber's record in the late 1930's all that remained of the complex were piles of bricks and tile fragments. Sources: Blair, Sheila S. and Jonathan M. Bloom. The Art and Architecture of Islam. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1994 Wilber, Donald N. The Architecture of Islamic Iran: The Il-Khanid Period, 124-126. New York: Greenwood Press, 1969 Masashi, Haneda. "Gazaniyya in Tabriz." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Urbanism in Islam (ICUIT) II, 284-299. Tokyo: Middle Eastern Culture Center in Japan, 1989."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Tabriz, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 028766
label: USNM Number
content: A95805-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tile