Dedicatory Inscription from a Mosque

لوح تدشين جامع

Dedicatory Inscription from a Mosque; Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession 1981.320.

Depth

At a glance

Identifiers
official
Review
Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it

In time

149015001510
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

Arts of the book

Overview

A dedicatory inscription panel for a mosque dated 905 AH / 1500 CE; India, the Delhi Sultanate or its regional successors. Held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 1

People and things also explored

Arabesque· Girih· Hedwig glass· Islamic calligraphy· Islamic geometric patterns· Islamic lustreware· Kubachi ware· Mahmal

Sources

  1. Metropolitan Museum Open Access
Cite this page

islam.museum contributors. “Dedicatory Inscription from a Mosque”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/object/lawh-tahdid/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-18.

Improve this page on GitHub · Report an error · JSON

Wing

Objects

Manuscripts, art, architecture and relics from collections worldwide.
Related

Arabesque

The interlaced vegetal ornament that became the signature of Islamic art, flowing across stucco, stone, wood and manuscripts.