Samarra harem wall painting fragments
AD 800-900 · Resource
Fragments of painted plaster from the palace quarters at Samarra, the Abbasid caliphal capital founded in AD 836. Among the rare survivals of figurative Abbasid Islamic painting.
On these timelines: British Museum, Resources: Combined
Around 850
- Reign of Alfred the Great (871)
- Song invention of gunpowder (950)
- Islamic Golden Age (750)
- Abbasid Caliphate founded (750)
- Treaty of Verdun (843)
- Reign of Charlemagne (768)
- Diamond Sutra printed (868)
- Founding of Baghdad (762)
- House of Wisdom (830)
- Founding of Kievan Rus' (862)