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The Marbles, Stone and Stucco.
Of the most important places in the museum
collection of marble and stone are funeral tombstones inscribed in Kufic and
Naskhi through which we could study the development of Arabic writing from
the dawn of Islam up to the 19th cent. The cemetery of Aswan
provided the Museum with about 1000 tombstones. The marble big panels were used to decorate the
mosques walls, the museum acquired good examples from the Fatimid and Mamluk period.
Of the stucco panels the museum got good and
impressive example of wall panels decorations representing the three phases
of Samarra Style in the Abbasid period 9th cent. A.D. these
decorative panels are respectively exhibited in hall No. 3.
From al-Fustat ,stucco architectural elements
painted in fresco style. Mamluks used in their
buildings and stucco windows with colored glass. From the Cairene mosques and
private houses the museum got a lot of marble jars ( zeer) mostly carved in
Oval shape in one block of marble.
The registered objects
: 5903
The Curator
: Mostafa Khalid Ibrahim
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