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    Monuments of Merv

    Traditional Buildings of the Karakum

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    Author(s)
    Herrmann, Georgina
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    Archaeological research and ancient records have been combined in this work to provide a comprehensive account of the buildings of Merv, an oasis city in the middle of the Turkmenistani desert. Founded in the sixth century BC, Merv was a key staging post along the Central Asian trade routes linking Europe and India, and its buildings - palaces, pavilions, gardens and towers springing from the sand - impressed all who visited it. Although eroded by time and weather, enough remains of these buildings to illustrate the evolution of architectural styles in the early medieval and Seljuk eras (7th to 13th cents AD), a period during which the Islamic world developed its own unique range of building types and decorative motifs. This book examines in detail each of the surviving buildings of Merv, discussing their form and function – from palaces to ice-houses, from fortified watch-towers to libraries and dovecotes. Details of doors, windows, corridors and stairways, monumental entrances, rooms, domes and vaults, niches, wall decoration and flooring are described and illustrated in great detail. The book will serve as a major resource for scholars of Islamic architecture.
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    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50363
    Keywords
    Archaeology; Merv; Central Asia; Buildings; Islamic architecture
    DOI
    10.26530/20.500.12657/50363
    ISBN
    9780854312757, 9780854312757
    Publisher
    Society of Antiquaries of London
    Publisher website
    https://www.sal.org.uk/
    Publication date and place
    London, 1999
    Series
    Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London, 62
    Classification
    Archaeology by period / region
    Architectural structure and design
    Central Asia
    Pages
    244
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    All rights reserved
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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