Name of Object:

Façade of the Palace of Mushatta

Other name of the Object (second name):

Decorative entrance facade of the Umayyad caliphal palace

Location:

Berlin, Germany

Holding Institution:

Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon Museum, State Museums

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Date of Object:

AD 743–744; given by the Ottoman sultan ‘Abd al-Hamid II to Emperor Wilhelm II in 1903

Description:

The Umayyad palace façade of Mushatta – gifted by Ottoman sultan `Abd al-Hamid II – is one of the key works of Islamic art and a prime example of shared heritage. The monument shows the origins of a cultural era rooting in the various local traditions of Late Antiquity and also its early development. It hence became seminal for the Islamic art department, whose very establishment by Wilhelm von Bode in 1904 is due to this gift.

Type of Object

Façade; archaeological find

Citation of this web page:

Stefan Weber "Façade of the Palace of Mushatta" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2026.
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;de;3;en;en

Prepared by: Stefan Weber

MWNF Working Number: DE 003