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Image View Description:

Exterior: View from the park

Date:

1199

Location:

Erbil (Iraq)

Title Variant:

Abbasid Minaret

Work Type:

architecture

Material / Technique:

brick

Material / Technique 2:

glazed brick

Creator:

Muzaffar al-Din Abi Said ibn Ali Kukburi, the governor of Erbil

Creator Nationality:

Abbasid

Creator Dates:

1199

Creator Role:

patron

Style / Period:

Abbasid

Photographer:

Serdar Yalcin

Notes:

The minaret was originally attached to an earlier mosque, the remains of which were discovered in early 1960s.

Image Source:

Photography by the Media Center for Art History, Department of Art History and Archeology, Columbia University

Record ID:

1314_iraq2013_abbasidminaret_vr_01