"Illustrations of Fatimids, 10th-12th Centuries" Topic

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Druzhina	17 Dec 2012 2:59 a.m. PST
There isn't a lot of surviving material on Fatamids. Here is a collection: Fatimids, 10th-12th Centuries Fatimid Soldiers and Hunters Fatimid Musicians, Dancers & Revelers Fatimid-Zirid Bas-relief of Musician and Drinker Fatimid-Zirid Plate with a Battle Scene, larger image & detail Musician on a Bowl, Fatimid Egypt, 10th Century Fatimid Horseman from Ifriqiyah on a Plate, 10th to 12th Centuries & larger image Fatimid Rider and Four Warriors on Coptic Textile, 11th Century Fatimid Wood Carving of Hunters, 11th Century & larger image Fatimid Carved Panel with Soldier, 11th Century & larger image Fatimid Ceramic Wall-Plaque with Warriors from the Sabra Palace, 11th century Fragment of a Fatimid Bowl Depicting a Mounted Warrior, 11th century Plaque with a running man and his dog, Fatimid Egypt, 11th Century & larger image Fatimid Lustre Painted Dish with Musician, 11th century Bathhouse Fresco of a Man with Goblet, 11th Century Fatimid Rectangular piece of wood with swordsmen, larger image & even larger image Fatimid wooden plank with carved lion hunt, 11th century Fatimid wooden plank with carved dancer, 11th century Fatimid wooden plank with musicians and revelers, 11th century Fatimid wooden plank with musicians and dancers, 11th century Hunter on an 11th century ivory drinking horn probably made in Muslim Sicily or Southern Italy Coptic Priest on a Plate, 1050-1100 & larger image Shields on the Bab al-Nasr (Gate of Victory), Cairo, 1087 Frieze of Hunters over the door of the Church of San Bernadetto, Brindisi, late 11th Century Fatimid Lustre Bowl Depicting a Lute Player, 11th-12th century Fatimid Turban on Manuscript Fragment, 11th-12th Centuries Morgan Casket, Southern Italy, 11th-12th century, larger image, front detail & top detail Four ivory panels with hunters and revellers, 11th-12th century & larger image Figure with Goblet on Fatimid Bowl, 11th-12th century. Ivory casket wiyh Lion Hunt, Fatimid Sicily or Southern Italy, 11th-12th Centuries & larger image Fatimid Manuscript with Two Soldiers, 11th-12th Centuries & larger image Fatimid Carved Ivory Panel with Hunters, 11th-12th Centuries & larger image Carved Ivory Plaque of Lion Hunt, Fatimid Egypt or Iraq, 11th-12th Century & larger image Fatimid dancer on an ivory panel, 11th-12th century Fatimid lute player on an ivory panel, 11th-12th century Fatimid Infantryman on a Plate, 12th Century Fatimid Warrior on Plate Fragment, 12th Century & larger image Islamic Sicilian Ivory Casket with Horsemen, 12th Century A Fatimid Nobleman or Officer on a lustre-ware plate, 12th Century Fatimid plate with mounted hunter, 12th century Fatimid bowl with female scarf dancer, 12th century Sicilian ivory pyxis, 12th century Fatimid wood panel with dancer, 12th century Fatimid Manuscript Fragment, Fustat, 12th Century Fatimid bowl with a hunter on horse Fatimid bowl with a musician Fatimid bowl with a drinker Fatimid bowl with young courtier Manuscript illumination with depiction of a court scene Illustrations from a Coptic Gospel, Damietta, Egypt, 1179-80 Fatimid Manuscript with 'Jazrafil who rides an Elephant', c. 1200 AD A drawing of, & notes on, a Sudanese spearman by Ian Heath Fatimids on Plate G, Men-At-Arms Series 125, The Armies of Islam 7th-11th Centuries by David Nicolle & Angus McBride – based on many of the above. A drawing of, & notes on, a Daylami Tribesman by Ian Heath A painting of a Daylami Infantryman, early 11th century, by Angus McBride Drawing of, and notes on, a Fatimid Infantryman by Ian Heath based on a manuscript above. Drawings of a Fatimid Infantryman and a Fatimid Cavalryman Cavalryman by Ian Heath based on the manuscript fragment. Druzhina sites of wargaming interest
Rudysnelson	17 Dec 2012 4:41 a.m. PST
Thanks
LorenzoMele	18 Dec 2012 12:57 a.m. PST
Very useful, like the previous illustration links posted. Thanks Lorenzo tagmata.it
janner	18 Dec 2012 3:15 a.m. PST
Fabulous images matey :-)

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