3575 x 5363 px | 30,3 x 45,4 cm | 11,9 x 17,9 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
1. Mai 2015
Ort:
Shellal, Aswan, Egypt,
Weitere Informationen:
The village beside this minaret was flooded when the Aswan dam was built, but even before then knowledge of which building the minaret was attached to was lost. However, its Kufic foundation inscription tells us the manara was erected by the founder, ‘Ubayd ibn Muhammad, and the builders, Hatim and his son, all otherwise unknown. The inscription in cut brick is legible despite its unusual technique that blends in with the brick background; unlike Iranian examples it has no frame or border. Before its recent defacement by brick robbers the minaret had a square base surmounted by a tapering circular shaft. A projecting platform of stone slabs, now supported on stone corbels (replacing wooden originals), leads in turn to a dome pierced by star-shaped openings, supported on a cube with a window on each face. The corners of the cube, like many of the Fatimid mausoleums at Aswan, have acroteria, a feature also common in local vernacular architecture. It is impossible to be sure of its dating (nor that of a now vanished nearby minaret at Mashhad al-Qibli), but it is probably c. 1050-1100.
