Carved Plaster in Umayyad Architecture

@article{Hamilton1953CarvedPI,  title={Carved Plaster in Umayyad Architecture},  author={R. W. Hamilton},  journal={Iraq},  year={1953},  volume={15},  pages={43 - 55},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:192962299}}
When al Mu‘awiyah in A.D. 661 became Caliph in Damascus, and founded there a line of rulers addicted by policy and temperament to architectural enterprise and reliant in many spheres on the talents and support of a Syrian population, the building trades of Syria, which had enjoyed but desultory employment since the busy years of Justinian, were quickened to a new and fecund term of life. Several buildings created in the ensuing century have survived in part: at Damascus al Walid's mosque; in… 

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