COLLECTION NAME:
Walter B. Denny World Art & Architecture Images
Record
ID_Number:
WBD_01698
Creator name:
unknown
Title:
Krak des Chevaliers, column with inscriptions in dungeon of castle
View description:
full view
Date:
ca. 1271
Date type:
creation
Location:
Syria (historical)
Location type:
general region
Location:
Hims, Syria
Location type:
site
Repository name:
Krak des Chevaliers (Qalʻat al-Ḥiṣn, Syria)
Repository name variant:
Castle of the Knights
Repository location:
Qalʻat al-Ḥiṣn, Syria
Style_Period:
Crusader (style)
Style_Period:
13th Century
Style_Period name variant:
thirteenth century
Subject:
castles (fortifications)
Subject:
Crusades
Subject:
Mamluk (Egyptian and Syrian Islamic style and period)
Subject:
dungeons (jails)
Subject:
columns (architectural elements)
Culture:
Syrian Islamic
Culture:
French
Category:
Architecture and City Planning
Category:
Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
Work_type:
castle (fortification)
Work_type:
columns (architectural elements)
Copy_Source:
digital image
Image_Source:
Walter Denny disk
Note:
originally a Hospitaller chapel, converted into a mosque after Krak des Chevaliers fell to the Mamluk Sultan, Baibars, in 1271
Rights Reproduction & Access:
Copyrighted material--for educational use only
Filename:
WBD_01698.tif
