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‘Similar austere decoration is found on other Seljuk buildings on which motifs like the dragon,* tree of life, and lion-killing bull** are represented. The Artukids were also great bridge-builders during the 12^th century, one of which was decorated with carved signs of the Zodiac.’

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‘In the 14^th century**** a new style of design appears, in which the dominant motif is a stylised animal, eagle, or dragon, within a frame, arranged as a repeat pattern in groups of six or more. This type is best known for its representation in Italian paintings of the 14^th and 15^th centuries.# Such designs might have derived from Byzantine silk textiles in which roundels containing animals, eagles or confronted birds are common; but they are also found in stone carvings of the Seljuk period as at Diyarbakr, while a double-headed eagle is painted in gold on a red ground#* on the inner surface of a carved wood Koran stand in Konya, dated 678-1279/80[ce],#** with carved inscription of dedication to the mausoleum of the great mystic Jalal al-Din Rumi (ob[it] 1273[ce]). The dragon and phoenix are not likely to have appeared in Anatolia #*** before the Mongol conquest of 1243[ce].’

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***– ibid [Encyclopaedia of Visual Arts 3:441]

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#****– ibid [Encyclopaedia of Visual Arts 3]: 443

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