Mamluk glass bracelets The sites of Tal al-Qadi and Khirbet al-Minya as a model

Abstract

The article dealt with the issue of Mamluk glass bracelets, the sites of Tel al-Qadi and Khirbat al-Minya as an example. The importance of this study lies in its objective of clarifying the characteristics of glass bracelets dating back to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries AD / the eighth and ninth centuries AH in Palestine in general, the sites of Tel al-Qadi and Khirbet al-Minya in particular, despite the difficulties represented in the lack of available studies on this type Of the arts, in addition to the palaces of authors in this field. In addition to the difficulty of accessing images of pieces directly from museums - due to the conditions of maintenance and restoration - in addition to the difficulty of accessing some museums and private collections. Of the importance of the topic, the study of this type of industries sheds - in an indirect way - the light on the glass industries and the manufacture of jewelry pieces - during the studied period - in general. To achieve this end, it has been relied on a methodology based on two axes, the first is descriptive and the second is analytical. After studying the pieces in a detailed descriptive study, we moved to the analytical aspect, which depends mainly on classifying these bracelets into three models, to study including their colors, shapes and types of glass used in their manufacture, as well as studying their cross sections and decorations.