Studio Said – Photographs

Symmetry, Qubbat al-Sakhra Mosaics

glittering mosaics with amphora, acanthus and fruiting vines from The Dome of the Rock

 

Palestine Composition #55"

Mosaic panel from the Muslim shrine Qubbat as-Sakhra / Dome of the Rock inside the al-Aqsa mosque of Jerusalem-alQuds (Palestine-Israel), featuring spiraling rinceaux growing out of a bejeweled amphora and surmounted by a pair of wings in the Sassanian Persian style. These wings commemorate the Prophet Muhammad's miraculous Night Journey on Buraq, a winged horse like the Grecian Pegasus.