Lane-Poole, Stanley, 1854-1931 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 126
d be difficult to break off atany given point in the borders. Plaster work continued to be used by En-Nasir Mohammad, theson of Kalaun, in his two mosques, but this appears to have beennearly the last occasion (13T8) of the general employment of plasterin a considerable mosque. Before the building… … FIG. l6.—STONE PULPIT IN MOSQUE OF BARKUK. Early Fifteenth Century. H 2 ioo ART OF THE SARACENS. in 1356-9, stone had begun to take the place of plaster (seefig. 14). Sultan Hasans mosque is entirely of stone facing,though, as we have seen, brick was used for the roofs of thearches or transepts,…
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