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Location: Dar al-Kiswah, Cairo, Egypt
Materials: ink, pencil and watercolour on thick card, ghost-marked with a grid
Accession Number: MSS 1128.1
Other Notes: Although the sitarahs for the Meccan minbar were replaced on a regular basis, no examples that predate the early 20th century are known. However, descriptions of them (calligraphic panels above an area with a mosque lamp) correspond to the pattern seen here and to 20th-century examples.
In this template, the blue represents areas which were to be embroidered in silver wire, the yellow in gilded silver wire. For a curtain made in this pattern, see TXT 503.
