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The three stucco and glass windows illustrated by Melchior de Vogüé were previously in the octagon of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. The qamariyya depicted here formerly was in window 27 of the octagon. It bears the second part of the name of Sultan Suleiman Qanuni: [(Sultan Suleiman) son of the Sultan Selim Khan, son of Bayazid]. This naming of Sultan Suleiman as well as certain motifs, such as the quadrilobed medallion (see IG_72), suggest that the windows recorded by de Vogüé in 1864 were the ones installed during the renovation in 1528. In contrast, the windows replaced in 1291 AH /1874 CE bore the name of Sultan Abdulaziz (Flood, 2000, p. 435).
De Vogüé indicates that the windows are shown at a scale of 1:1000. Furthermore, in comparison with a more recent copy of the octagon window, now in the Haram Museum in Jerusalem, Flood was able to specify the measurements of the original windows: about 325cm by 109cm (345cm by 128cm with the wooden frame). The epigraphic field, measuring 70cm by 37cm, is delineated with a thick border of stucco tracery about 2.5cm wide. The lower rectangular field measures 30cm by 27cm. The outer border, consisting of ovoid cartouches separated by medallions or rhomboids, is 20cm wide (de Vogüé, 1864, p. 96; Flood, 2000, p. 435).
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1864
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