Legend of Eagle and its Symbolism New Celadon sherd of Fustat Excavation

Elsayed, Mamdouh

doi:10.21608/jguaa.2017.4762

Legend of Eagle and its Symbolism New Celadon sherd of Fustat Excavation

Document Type : Original Article

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Mamdouh Elsayed

Lecturer of Islamic archaeology at Faculty of archaeology, Aswan University, Islamic Department(Egypt)

10.21608/jguaa.2017.4762

Abstract

This Research aim to study a new Chinese Celadon Sherd which discovered in Excavation of Fustat Area 2008-2009, try to date this Sherd which decorated by Eagle, which spread in Architecture and Arts of Ayyubid and Mamluk Period, The Eagle decoration had taken as a motto by many princes of ayyubid and Mamluk Period, The views about assigning of this Sherd was swung between the two eras, but the biggest weighting was favor to the Ayyubid period as we will see, especially the Era of As-Sultan Al-Kamel Mohamed who also took the Eagle as an Emblem for him, depending on the striking similarity between the implementation of Eagle Decoration on this Sherd, and the same decoration which carried out at the two Tiles held by the Museum of the Korra-Taye in Konia, back to the reign of the Seljuk Sultan Alaa-eddin Kikabbad, who also took the Eagle as an Emblem for him, this period which parallel the same period of the Rule reign of As-Sultan Al-Kamel Mohammed, and thus we could to assign this Sherd to the Rule of Chinese Song Dynasty, Not to the Rule of the Yuan Dynasty.

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