Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 642
been extended to them by the ninth century, to which datethe door of Mamun in the Mosque of Omar at Jerusalem is ascribed.2This style of damascening may well have been of Eastern introduction,and have been adopted in the empire in the First Period. Whether this 1 Catalogue, Nos. 686 ff. Wulff,… … Fig. 391. Bronze door of the ninth century, Sta Sophia, Constantinople, with monogramsinlaid with silver. (Sebah and Joaillier.) 618 VARIOUS OBJECTS was so or not, it was always popular among the Moslems of Mesopotamia,Syria, and Egypt from the thirteenth century onwards, and was by themtransmitted…
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