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This item has been added to the Database within the Explore Islamic Art Collections project. Information is available in: English, Arabic.

Name of Object:

A Ferry Crossing the Gagos River

Location:

Copenhagen, Denmark

Holding Museum:

The David Collection

About The David Collection, Copenhagen

Date of Object:

Hegira 621 / AD 1224

Museum Inventory Number:

Inv.no. 5/1997

Period / Dynasty:

Abbasid

Provenance:

Iraq, Baghdad?

Description:

This is one of the both unnecessary and revolutionary illustrations in Abdallah ibn al-Fadl’s copy of Dioscorides’s medical treatise.
The text states that on the shores of the Gagos River, jet can be found effective against pain in the uterus, but the artist took the opportunity to depict a ferry with a helmsman, two rowers, and eight passengers looking out of a porthole.

Citation of this web page:

 "A Ferry Crossing the Gagos River" in Explore Islamic Art Collections. Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;dn;Mus21;27;en

MWNF Working Number: DN 27

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