Mashrabiyya Elements

Unknown

8th–10th century · Wood · Islamic Art

Mashrabiyya Elements — Unknown

These wooden elements of various shapes and sizes likely came from a mashrabiya window or door, from a monastery in Balyzeh, Assiut, Upper Egypt. The holes were used to connect the mashrabiya elements together.

Artist
Unknown
Date
8th–10th century
Medium
Wood
Department
Islamic Art
Credit line
Gift of The Egyptian Research Account and British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1908

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