TY - JOUR
T1 - Why is the minaret so short? evidence for earthquake damage on mt zion
AU - Zohar, Motti
AU - Rubin, Rehav
AU - Salamon, Amos
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Palestine Exploration Fund 2015.
PY - 2015/9/1
Y1 - 2015/9/1
N2 - On top of King Davids Sepulchre atMtt Zion there is an Ottoman minaret known as al-Nabi Da' ud. Compared with other minarets in Jerusalem, al-Nabi Da' ud seems to be somewhat shorter, and has a squat-like appearance. To track why it is shorter than other minarets, we inspected written historical sources, a sequence ofold drawings dated between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries and analysed the minaret s metric proportions. In drawings dated to and before 1833, the minaret is portrayed much higher than in drawings and photographs dated to and after 1838. Furthermore, comparative height-diameter ratio ofvarious parts of the minaret does not fit those of its counterpart, the al-QkaF a minaret. Thus, we suggest that the minaret was originally built higher but damaged during the 1834 earthquake, and reconstructed to a lower height sometimes afterwards.
AB - On top of King Davids Sepulchre atMtt Zion there is an Ottoman minaret known as al-Nabi Da' ud. Compared with other minarets in Jerusalem, al-Nabi Da' ud seems to be somewhat shorter, and has a squat-like appearance. To track why it is shorter than other minarets, we inspected written historical sources, a sequence ofold drawings dated between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries and analysed the minaret s metric proportions. In drawings dated to and before 1833, the minaret is portrayed much higher than in drawings and photographs dated to and after 1838. Furthermore, comparative height-diameter ratio ofvarious parts of the minaret does not fit those of its counterpart, the al-QkaF a minaret. Thus, we suggest that the minaret was originally built higher but damaged during the 1834 earthquake, and reconstructed to a lower height sometimes afterwards.
KW - 1834 earthquake
KW - Jerusalem
KW - Minaret
KW - Mt Zjon
KW - Ottoman buildings
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84941066991&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1179/1743130114Y.0000000016
DO - 10.1179/1743130114Y.0000000016
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AN - SCOPUS:84941066991
SN - 0031-0328
VL - 147
SP - 230
EP - 246
JO - Palestine Exploration Quarterly
JF - Palestine Exploration Quarterly
IS - 3
ER -