Name | Dynasty | Details | Justification |
Fresco panel: 'Dancers' | Hegira first third of the 2nd century / AD first half of the 8th centuryUmayyad | In situ at Qusayr 'Amra Amman, Jordan | An Umayyad dancer whose outfit comprises a shirt, over the top of which is an izar worn around the lower half of the body. |
Fragment of a mural painting | Hegira 109 / AD 727Umayyad | National Museum of Damascus Damascus, Syria | A woman wearing a turban on her head and whose black fronds of hair just show, fashionably, around the edges allowing her dangling earrings to be seen. |
Dish | Hegira, early 11th century / AD early 17th centuryOttoman | National Museums of Scotland (NMS) Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom | The woman on this dish wears a tall head-cover apparently formed from a folded scarf which is decorated with tulips and leaves in red and blue. |
Ewer | Hegira 629 / AD 1232Atabeg / Ayyubid | The British Museum London, England, United Kingdom | Ayyubid women's court costume included wide, loosely fitting outer garments and a turban that allowed some locks of hair to show. The lute-player's face-veil as seen here is not prescribed by Islam but it was often adopted. |
The 'Lady of Sabra' plate | Hegira, second half of the 4th century / AD 10th centuryFatimid | Museum of Islamic Art Raqqada, Kairouan, Tunisia | The woman seen on this dish wears an elaborately decorated layered and flowing dress, in keeping with her assumed profession as a dancer. |