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99. This example, also a fragment, is published in Beattie 1968,
fig. 3; and Ellis 1969, fig. 20.
100. This rug, which is in the Textile Museum, was published a number of
times, including Kiihnel and Bellinger 1957, pis. XXX and XXXI; Beattie
1969, fig. 2; Ellis 1969, fig. 19; and Washington 1974, no. V.
101. The Padua example is illustrated in Landsberger 1945-1946, fig. 4. This
and the Jerusalem rug are discussed in Denny 1986.
102. Published in several studies, including Ellis 1969, fig. 6; Washington
1974, no. II; and London 1983, no. 54.
103. The present location of this rug, published in Ellis 1969, fig. 7, is not
known.
104. One of these, in Istanbul, was found in the Mausoleum of Selim II. In
the past it was thought erroneously to have come from the Mausoleum of
Ahmed I. See Ellis 1969, fig. 12; and Istanbul 1983, E. 239. A second rug, in
Washington, has a lamp suspended in the niche. Ellis 1969, fig. 13; and
Washington 1974, no. III.
105. One such example in Istanbul was found in the Mausoleum of Ahmed
I and another, in West Berlin, bears a chronogram giving the date 16107
1611. Both arc published in Ellis 1969, figs. 2 and 8. Also dating from late
sixteenth or early seventeenth century are a number of seccades with densely
decorated fields, following the style seen in the second group of prayer rugs.
Several of these are published in Ellis 1969, figs. 14-18; and Washington
1974, no. IV.
106. See Ellis 1969, figs. 21-24; Washington 1974, no. XI; and Istanbul
1983, E. 233 and 234. The same type of rug was woven in Cairo during the
seventeenth century, as indicated in the 1674 inventory of the Yeni Garni in
Istanbul, which lists several Egyptian safs that contained 10 to 132 niches as
well as examples from U§ak. See Sakisian 1931.
107. Mackie 1980, ill. 184.
108. The Berlin rug is published in Bode and Kiihnel 1958, pi. Ill; and the
Paris rug is illustrated in Beattie 1968, fig. 4.
109. See Mackie 1976 for a study of one at the Textile Museum, with re-
lated examples.
110. See Yetkin 1981, 101-127, for a survey of Ottoman court rugs.
111. Mackie 1973, no. 33.
112. One of these, in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, is published in Yetkin
1981, ill. 63. According to Erdmann 1970, 198, there is another one in the
Archbishop's Palace in Kremsier, Czechoslovakia. See London 1983, no. 24
for a third almost circular sixteenth-century example decorated in the Mam-
luk style. The same format was executed in appliqued leather; one such ex-
ample, in the Topkapi Palace Museum, is published in Gonül n.d., pi. 28.
113. Forster 1968, 220.
114. For the San Gimignano rug sec Yetkin 1981, ill. 64. The other is pub-
lished in London 1983, no. 52; this entry also mentions a third example in
Berlin.
115. For Mughal seccades and safs, in addition to later Ottoman examples,
see Ellis 1969, 18-20.
116. One from the Mausoleum of Selim II and the other from that of
Ahmed I arc published in Istanbul 1983, E. 239; and Ellis 1969,
fig. 2.
117. The niches in these prayer rugs may symbolize both the mihrab and the
gateway to paradise; thus their format was easily adapted for synagogue
hangings, where the representation of the latter was desired.
118. See Denny 1977 for an expert study of the tiles of this mosque; see also
Denny 1980, ill. 161 for this panel.
119. See note 107 above.

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