Raqqa Revisited: Ceramics of Ayyubid Syria

2006·41 MB·English

by  Jenkins-Madina, Marilyn

Ceramics of
dyyubid Syria

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ragga Revisited

Raqga Revisited

Ceramics of Ayyubid Syria

Marilyn Jenkins-Madina

(The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,

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Contents

Direcwor's Foreword
Pipes Monet
Adknwncelgmtats

‘Map: Cenaral fie Luly inthe Moov Kaci Pov

Lueraducrion
1, ‘The Lore ane Lage of Raqaa
2, Rayyo Deutythulogized

23, The Byjects a! Rawya

‘Ray Cevimics ia Tue Metrogoliat: Masewa of Art

6, The Period of Pevnluetion

Patter, Profiles, ankl Provenance

Tpilogue

Appendis 1'Vhe-Orteman Hesprase on illit Digemg in Maca
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ands; Compontsinal Analysis of Kae Uairteents-Century
Corsries ftom Racca and Kelated Sites
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Concorde
Libhography of Works Cised
index

Photograph Cred

Director's Foreword

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