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11-Feb-2015 Dick Osseman

Antalya Museum feb 2015 5037.jpg

Inscription for the foundation of a 1244 Seljuk bastion.

From the upper bastion of the Antalya fortifications.
Inscription written in elaborate sülüs script (one of the medieval Arabic scripts).
In marble and local stone. 315 cm height. 305 cm width.

Correspondent: J.M.Criel, Antwerpen.
Source: ‘Antalya Museum’ (Book from the ‘Kültür Bakanlığı’/Ministry of Culture)

MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION
Marble and local stone - H: 315 cm. W: 305 cm.
Seljuk Period, 13th century A.D. - Antalya fortress, upper bastion - 9/14
Monumental Seljuk mid-13th Century inscription from a demolished tower in the North facing city walls of Antalya. Following a typical Syrian design, and probably the work of a Syrian architect in the employ of Sultan Giyathsed-Din Keyhusrev IInd (1236-46), the son of Sultan Alaed-Din Keykubat Ist, it is carved from thirty-two dressed blocks, some spolien (re-used) in six rows and records the building by order of the Seljuk Sultan of one of the 40 towers that guarded the city wall from the 13th century until the 20th century.
Within the arch is an inscription in five lines of bold Sulus script that give the numerous titles of the Sultan who was legitimized in his appointment by the Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad and this inscription carries the date in the Islamic calendar of Hicra 642 which, converted into the Christian calendar, gives a date of 1244-1245. Worthy of note are the lions heads, symbol of the Rum Seljuk Sultanate, carved on the column capitals on either side of the inscription.

Source: A pdf of the museum I found on the internet

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