Norther Tajikistan 10-13C - MIKHRAB

Clay. Thread. Upper part in the form of arched arch (height 8, width 70, depth 30), lower - flat panel (height 107, width 70, thickness 2 - 2,5). The arched top consists of two promising reduced arches of lancet outline. As the composition center of konkhi of the large arch serves the round locket, filled with the alternating in checkerboard formation dual trefoils and meanders in the framing of the almond-shaped lobes, decorated with the grid of notched rhombs or with the image of the stylized sheet. Internal filling of konkhi is contoured by belt from the open weaving of the notched rhombs, surrounded by the strip of polukruzhiy. The archivolt of the large arch of mikhraba decorates carved Arab inscription with the handwriting of kufi with the plant ornament. The apex of lancet completion with the remainders of its framing semicircular festoons was preserved from the small arch of arch. The lower part of mikhraba is flat panel with the internal scalloped arochkoy; panel is encircled on the edge by the recta
ngular ornamented framework. The field of the timbrels of arch is filled with the ground plant flights in the form of weaving from the spirals, the executed in the technology deep thread "lock" of scalloped arch demonstrates traditional for the skill and the Near East motive "thrown open it is wing". X - THE XI of substances the settlement Of asht (Leninabadskaya obl.) . Lit.: Masson 1940, s. 52 - 54; Pugachenkova 1950; Litvinskiy 1956; Khmel'nitskiy - Negmatov 1963.

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