unit 7 (west and central asia) identifiers

• Petra, Jordan: Treasury and Great Temple

• Nabataean Ptolemaic and Roman

• c. 400 BCE-100 CE

• Cut rock

• Buddha

• Bamiyan, Afghanistan

• Gandharan

• c. 400-800 CE (destroyed in 2001)

• Cut rock with plaster and polychrome paint

• Jowo Rinpoche, enshrined in the Jokhang Temple

• Lhasa, Tibet

• Yarlung Dynasty

• Believed to have been brought to Tibet in 641 CE

• Gilt metals with semiprecious stones, pearls, and paint; various offerings

• The Kaaba

• Mecca, Saudi Arabia

• Islamic

• Pre-Islamic monument; rededicated by Muhammad in 631-632 CE; multiple renovations

• Granite masonry, covered with silk curtain and calligraphy in gold and silver-wrapped thread

• Dome of the Rock

• Jerusalem

• Islamic, Umayyad

• 691-692 CE, with multiple renovations

• Stone masonry and wooden roof decorated with glazed ceramic tile, mosaics, and gilt aluminum and bronze dome

• Great Mosque (Masjid-e Jameh)

• Isfahan, Iran

• Islamic, Persian: Seljuk, Il-Khanid, Timurid and Safavid Dynasties

• c. 700 CE; additions and restorations in the 14th, 18th, and 20th centuries CE

• Stone, brick, wood, plaster, and glazed ceramic tile

• Folio from a Qur’an

• Arab, North Africa, or Near East

• Abbasid

• c. eighth to ninth century CE

• Ink, color, and gold on parchment

• Basin (Baptistère de St. Louis)

• Muhammad ibn al-Zain

• c. 1320-1340 CE

• Brass inlaid with gold and silver

• Bahram Gur Fights the Karg, folio from the Great Il-Khanid Shahnama

• Islamic; Persian, Il’Khanid

• c. 1330-1340 CE

• Ink and opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper

• The Court of Gayumars, folio from Shah Tahmasp’s Shahnama

• Sultan Muhammad

• c. 1522-1525 CE

• Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

• The Ardabil Carpet

• Maqsud of Kashan

• 1539-1540 CE

• Silk and wool