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Topkapi gate
About this photograph
- Creator
- Margery H. Freeman
- Date created
- May 1993
- Location
- Istanbul, Turkey
- License
- This photograph copyright ©1993. Terms of use
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An Islamic gate that has Arabic writing all over it inlaid in gold against the stone. The gate has long horizontal rectangular blocks laid out in a pattern like a washboard, with a seal at the top. Each of the blocks has the gold writing in it and is outlined in gold, and the seal at the top has the signature of one of the famous kings of Turkey, and is decorated in gold. The wall surrounding this gate also has geometric designs and Arabic writing.
