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ID_Number: 
WBD_01620
Creator name: 
unknown
Creator name: 
Mehmed II, Sultan of the Turks
Creator dates: 
1432-1481
Creator nationality: 
Ottoman
Title: 
Topkapi Palace, Imperial Gate, calligraphy in small roundel above gate
View description: 
Detail view
Date: 
1478
Date type: 
creation date
Location: 
Istanbul, Turkey
Repository name: 
Topkapi Palace Museum
Repository location: 
Istanbul, Turkey
Style_Period: 
15th century
Style_Period name variant: 
fifteenth century
Style_Period: 
Ottoman (style)
Style_Period: 
Islamic (culture or style)
Subject: 
gates
Subject: 
entrances
Subject: 
courtyards
Subject: 
calligraphy (visual work)
Subject: 
Arabic scripts
Subject: 
gold (color)
Subject: 
roundels (circular panels)
Culture: 
Ottoman
Culture: 
Islamic
Category: 
Architecture and City Planning
Category: 
Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
Work_type: 
gates
Work_type: 
calligraphy (visual works)
Copy_Source: 
digital image
Image_Source: 
Walter Denny disk
Rights Reproduction & Access: 
Copyrighted material--for educational use only
Filename: 
WBD_01620.tif