Bringing the Holy Land Home: The Crusades, Chertsey Abbey, and the Reconstruction of a Medieval Masterpiece

Sources and Further Reading

Baer, Eva. Sphinxes and Harpies in Medieval Islamic Art: An Iconographical Study. Oriental 
Notes and Studies, No. 9. Jerusalem: Israel Oriental Society, 1965.

Compareti, Matteo. “The Spread Wings Motif on Armenian Steles: Its Meaning and Parallels in 
Sasanian Art.” Iran & The Caucasus 14, no. 2 (October 2010): 201–32. 
doi:10.1163/157338410X12743419190106.

Rice, David Talbot. “Late Byzantine Pottery at Dumbarton Oaks.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 20 (January 1, 1966): 207–19. doi:10.2307/1291246.


Lerner, Judith. “A Note on Sasanian Harpies.” Iran 13 (1975): 166–71. 
https://doi.org/10.2307/4300533.

Mango, Cyril A. The Art of the Byzantine Empire, 312-1453; Sources and Documents [by] Cyril 
Mango. Sources and Documents in the History of Art Series. Prentice-Hall, 1972. 
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cat09277a&AN=chc.oai.folio.org.holycross.55f31c34.56f9.5d4e.a1aa.9abefa8a9887&site=eds-live&scope=site.

Rice, David Talbot. Byzantine Glazed Pottery [by] D Talbot Rice...with an Introduction by 
Bernard Rackham. Clarendon Press, 1930. 
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org.holycross.aa2b7d9a.5702.52a9.b205.c5e15bff2501&site=eds-live&scope=site.

Yurdagül ÖZDEMİR. “Karatay Medresesi Çini Eserler Müzesinden Ünik Özellikte İki Siren/Harpi 
Figürlü Seramik / Two Unique Siren/Harpy Figured Ceramics in the Karatay Madrasah Tile Works Museum.” Arkhaia Anatolika 4 (March 1, 2021): 123–40. doi:10.32949/Arkhaia.2021.29.

http://museum.doaks.org/objects-1/info?query=mfs%20any%20%221958.103%22&sort=9

https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O85361/bowl-unknown/

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1916.1983

Image credits:
http://museum.doaks.org/objects-1/info?query=mfs%20any%20%221958.103%22&sort=9
(BZ.1958.103)

www.christies.com

Miniature from the Majma al-Tawarikh by Hafiz Abru; which depicts accession to the throne by Alp Arslan

Edinburgh University Library (Oriental Manuscript Section of the Special Collections and Archives): https://images.is.ed.ac.uk/luna/servlet/detail/UoEsha~4~4~61329~102907:World-History%2C-f-138r-detail%3Fsort%3Dwork_shelfmark%252Cwork_source_page_no%252Cwork_subset_index?qvq=w4s:/when%2Fc.1306CE%2Bor%2Bc.1314____15CE;sort:work_shelfmark%2Cwork_source_page_no%2Cwork_subset_index;lc:UoEsha~4~4&mi=98&trs=255#
Coronation of Malik-Shah I from the book Jami' al-Tawarikh

https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O85361/bowl-unknown/
(C. 47-1960)

Yurdagül ÖZDEMİR. “Karatay Medresesi Çini Eserler Müzesinden Ünik Özellikte İki Siren/Harpi 

Figürlü Seramik / Two Unique Siren/Harpy Figured Ceramics in the Karatay Madrasah Tile Works Museum.” Arkhaia Anatolika 4 (March 1, 2021): 123–40. doi:10.32949/Arkhaia.2021.29.

 

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