The Jordan Archaeological Museum in ʿAmman houses an Islamic copper alloy incense burner, which can be dated to the late 7th or early 8th century according to its discovery (in the late 1940s) in an Umayyad dwelling in the ʿAmman Citadel in Jordan. It is one of the earliest Islamic examples of a metal incense burner in an architectural form, namely a shape that spread widely later in the Seljuk Iranian area. The hypothesis is put forward here that it is a rare Islamic 'reproduction' of the Anastasis rotunda of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem before its destruction in 1009 by the Fatimid al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh. An intended use is suggested as a “votive” object of Islamic (or even Christian?) manufacture intended for a Christian user in the eclectic milieu of the bilād al-shām of the Umayyad period.
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Chapter Title
Una probabile riproduzione omayyade del Santo Sepolcro di Gerusalemme
Authors
Maria Vittoria Fontana
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0376-0.21
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Publication Year
2024
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Book Title
Florentia
Book Subtitle
Studi di archeologia: vol. 5 - Numero speciale - Studi in onore di Guido Vannini
Editors
Michele Nucciotti, Elisa Pruno
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Number of Pages
596
Publication Year
2024
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Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0376-0
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979-12-215-0375-3
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979-12-215-0376-0
Series Title
Strumenti per la didattica e la ricerca
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2704-6249
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2704-5870