Glazed Tiles with Kufic Inscription. Dimensions: H. 67 in. (170.2 cm)W. 7 in. (17.8 cm)D. 1 in. (2.5 cm). Date: 12th century.The six tiles composing this frieze entered the collection in 1910 in a different composition: assembled into a panel with three rows of two pieces each, with no regard for the inscriptions--to the point that one was placed upside down. The restorer who had joined them either could not read the Arabic script or assumed that the owner would not be able to do so. In 1975 museum conservators remounted the tiles as a horizontal frieze, a solution that is likely closer to the original format. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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Glazed Tiles with Kufic Inscription. Dimensions: H. 67 in. (170.2 cm)W. 7 in. (17.8 cm)D. 1 in. (2.5 cm). Date: 12th century.The six tiles composing this frieze entered the collection in 1910 in a different composition: assembled into a panel with three rows of two pieces each, with no regard for the inscriptions--to the point that one was placed upside down. The restorer who had joined them either could not read the Arabic script or assumed that the owner would not be able to do so. In 1975 museum conservators remounted the tiles as a horizontal frieze, a solution that is likely closer to the original format. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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