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Astronomy and astrology / Constellations / Zodiac / Cycles / Single image / Signs - Other than circular diagram
Astronomy and astrology / Planets / Represented as planetary deities / Dignities and debilities / Cycles / In one image

Further details

So-called Vaso del Rota, showing each planet in his house

Artist or creator

Herat (attributed)

Date

1180 - 1200

Location

London, British Museum (Dept. Middle East) (inv. 1848,0805.2)

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Michelangelo Lanci, Trattato delle simboliche rappresentanze Arabiche, Parigi 1845, pl. I; The cut-out used in Fritz Saxl, Beiträge zu einer Geschichte der Planetendarstellungen im Orient und im Occident, Islam 3, 1912, 151-177, fig. 26

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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