Preview
Creation Year
1967
Image ID
J.033
Alternate Identifier
B10.033
Subcollection
J: Isfahan
Description
A photograph of the Saraban or camel driver’s minaret (confused by Baly with the Chihil Dukhtar minaret). This minar stands very close to the minaret of the forty daughters in Isfahan. The minaret was built in 1130-55 and is almost twice as tall as its neighboring contemporary. It is made of tiers of tapering cylindrical shafts, with decorative bands of Kufic in turquoise tiles, and two girdles of elaborately ornamented cornices which can be seen in this picture.
Image Notes
Photograph created 1967. Photograph processed September 1967. Formerly cataloged as B10.033. Notes written on the slide or index: Isfahan Chehel Doktoran.
Image Format
35 mm slide
Geographic Reference
Isfahan, Iran
Keywords
Minaret, Mosque, Brick, Twelfth Century, Seljuk, Kufic Script, Tiles, Cornices
Image Location
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