Tile from the Chashma-i Ayub Portal Frame
Item
Title
Tile from the Chashma-i Ayub Portal Frame
Description
This object is a decorative, turquoise-glazed tile fragment of elaborate Arabic calligraphic writing. The tile is 52.5cm high and 30.5cm across. It is part of a larger epigraphic band made of sculpted baked clay covered in an opaque turquoise glaze, which adorns the top of the external entrance portal of the Chashma-i Ayub Mausoleum complex. When translated, the full band reads “The Prophet - peace be upon him - said: I had forbidden you to make pilgrimages to tombs. Now make pilgrimages. This monument was erected in the year five and six hundred.”
Creator
Unknown
Temporal Coverage
1208-1209 A.D.
Spatial Coverage
A few kilometers from Vabket, Bukhara Region, Uzbekistan
Type
Image
Date Created
2017-07-17
Source
Dalya Alberge, “British Museum helps return stolen artefact to Uzbekistan,” The Guardian, 17 July 2017, Accessed 2 April 2023, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/17/british-museum-helps-return-stolen-artefact-to-uzbekistan.
Contributor
Nina Elsner
Rights
Photograph: British Museum
