Koran stand (Koursi)
Item
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Work Number
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580276
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Title
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Koran stand (Koursi)
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Description
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Wood-carved Koran stand with two calligraphic bands (one around the narrower, top part of the stand, and the other encircling the wider, bottom part of the stand).
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Medium
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Woodcarving
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Condition
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Tarnished area on upper right leg
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Bibliographic Citation
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Rabino, M. H. L. "Le monastere de Sainte-Catherine (Mont Sinai); Souvenirs epigraphiques des anciens pelerins," bulletine de la Societe Royale de Geographie d'Egypte, 19, 1935, pp. 21-126, pl. XI.
Skrobucha, Heinz. Sinai trans. from the German by Geoffrey Hunt, London, Oxford University Press, 1966, p. 61.
Weitzmann, Kurt. "Mount Sinai's Holy Treasures," National Geographic, 125, 1964, p. 123, ill. | Rabino, M. H. L. Le monastere de Sainte-Catherine du Mont Sinai, Cairo, D. Spada, 1938, pl. XVII.
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Provenance
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New Library (from Mosque)
