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Source Write-ups
“A Survey of Persian Art,” Edited by Arthur Pope.


 * Tomb Towers are mentioned in pages:


 * 970-974 - “Gunbad-I-Qabus” by Andre Godard; not really relevant at all. It’s a tomb-tower where Qabus, a petty king in Northern Iran, had his corpse kept in a glass coffin and hung from the dome of the tower by chains. Windows would have let in this first light of the day onto his corpse. Very metal and apparently influential but not relevant.


 * 1020-1026 - “Islamic Architecture f. Seljuq Period.” Tomb Towers. Eric Shroeder. General analysis of tomb towers; may be useful. Gonna scan for later.


 * 1050 - “Islamic Architecture g. Thirteenth Century.” Nothing relevant; mentions tomb towers built after the mongol invasion and pontificates the invasion effect on art.


 * 1083-1084 “Islamic Architecture h. Fourteenth Century.” Arthur Pope. Not too relevant; Gunbad-I-Qabus appears to be the chief influential tomb tower. Kharraqan Towers not at all mentioned.


 * 1163-1164 “Islamic Architecture. K. Timurid” The Tomb Towers of the Mazandaran. Very idiosyncratic series of tomb towers defining a dynasty. Doesn’t appear terribly relevant.


 * 1323-1324 “Architectural Ornament.” Arthur Pope. Gunbad-i-Kabud is mentioned as a tomb-tower decorated with coloured, glazed bricks. That’s all.


 * 1721 “Calligraphy A. An Outline History.” Authored by the editors and more people. The tomb-tower RadKan is mentioned as containing a certain style of calligraphy.


 * 1744 “Calligraphy B. On Pottery.” S. Flury. Mentions a tomb-tower somewhere as an example of old floriated Kufic. Nothing around Kharraqan’s time is mentioned.


 * 1788 “Epigraphy A. Arabic Inscriptions.” Gaston Wiest. Mentions a bevy of tomb towers, as they all have inscriptions. I didn’t see Kharraqan Towers mentioned, but I’m gonna upload a scan of the page to the drive just in case.

That's all so far Tee.see.322 (talk) 00:52, 7 November 2018 (UTC)