Rare Mamluk glass lamp made for Maatouk Ibn Al-Bozuri Preserved at Louvre Museum-Paris (Civilization, Artistic study)

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faculty of archaeology ain shams

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This study deals with a unique Glass lamp kept by the Louvre Museum in Paris under the number MAO 487a dating back to the Mamluk period. It was endowed by the preacher Ibn Maatouq al-Bozuri on his father’s tomb in Jabal al-Salihiya in Damascus. Among the antiques was not limited to the princes and sultans of the Mamluks only, but was also made by drawing religious scholars and people of turbans because they had a great value in the state, which is rare in relation to the models that reached us from the Mamluk complaints, as the written text inscribed on them includes that this lamp was made It was endowed by the preacher Maatouq Ibn al-Waiez Ibn al-Bazuri al-Baghdadi on his father’s soil after his death, which indicates that the history of making this lamp was after Ibn al-Bozuri’s death, so it is considered one of the rare examples in which one of the sons endowed his Lamp on his father’s soil. This research paper deals with the aforementioned lampshade, the way it was made and decorated with gilding and enamel, the written text inscribed on it, and the information it contains of great value and importance in terms of the people whose names and titles are mentioned on this rare lamp, through a descriptive and analytical study that reveals a lot of information about Ibn al-Bozuri, his status and his destiny In the Levant at the time of the Mamluk sultans, as well as the artistic methods that were followed in the manufacture and decoration of Levantine glass lanterns during that period.

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