Abstrakt seminarium archeologicznego, 04 kwietnia 2023 r:

Almost all Christian buildings known from the Gulf region and dated to the 7th-9th centuries were originally decorated with stucco. Were these decorations coherent in style and iconography or are the visual language and formal features of the Gulf stuccoes a conglomerate of various traditions and influences? What was the specificity of stucco production of the Islamic sites located within the same geographical area and dated to around the 9th-11th centuries? To what extent was Christian art of the region dependent on the Sasanian tradition and to what extent were stuccoes produced by Muslim communities of this region related to the mainstream of Abbasid stucco production? During the presentation, these and other questions will be discussed and collections of stucco from a number of early Islamic sites located in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE, and Iran will be presented.