Bronze plate

Name: Bronze Plate.



Description: A bronze plate with chiselled decorations in which several concentric calligraphic patterns and geometric decoration surround a central medallion where two deers entwine their necks. The plate may have an Oriental origin, although the writings were attributed to an Almohad workshop.

Material: Bronze

Chronology: first half of the 12th century.

Provenance: Citadel of Mértola

Location: Museum of Mértola - Islamic Museum Hub



Retrieved from: TORRES, Cláudio; MACIAS, Santiago (ed.) (2003): Museu de Mértola: arte islâmica. Mértola: Campo Arqueológico de Mértola, pp.170



Note: The decoration of this plate was used as the symbol of the 6th Islamic Festival of Mértola - 2011