The oldest foundation tablet from the Ottoman era in Baghdad bears the name of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, dated 963 AH (1556 AD)"An artistic archaeological study"

Abstract

This paper deals with the study of the oldest founding tablet that came to us from the Ottoman era in Iraq, bearing a commemorative writing from the reign of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, dated in the year (963 AH / 1556 AD). The tablet dates the renovation of an old mosque built by the Abbasid Caliph Al-Nasir Li-Din Allah at the end of the sixth century AH, known as the Saray Mosque. It is preserved today in an ancient mausoleum that probably belongs to one of the Seljuk princes who took power in Baghdad called Bahruz al-Khadem (d. 540 AH).The importance of this study lies in documenting a memorial text, which none of the archaeologists have ever studied or documented, so the researcher sought to read it, unpack, analyze its text, and indicate its calligraphy and engraving, according to the approach of the archaeologists with the intention of preserving it, and urged specialists in Arabic scripts to provide more Scientific studies about it, to make it a link in the series of Arab-Islamic writings.

Keywords

• the serail mosque
• mausoleum
• memorial inscriptions
• sultan suleiman the magnificent