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Monumento a Al Mouhatamid Ibn Abbad

Monument for Muhammad ibn Abbad al-Mu'tamid

المعتمد بن عباد‎‎
Muhammad ibn Abbad al-Mu'tamid
known in Portuguese as Almutâmide
Beja 1040 - Aghmat, Morocco 1095
ruler of the taifa of Seville in Al-Andalus, and poet
(Wikipedia)

António Quina
2001

Silves / Monumento a Al Mouhatamid Ibn Abbad

Description

Stone sculpture group in a square pont depicting the Arabic people who lived in Xelb during the time of Al Mouhatamid Ibn Abbad, an eleventh-century governor of Xelb, by depicting scenes of their daily life.

The seven figures are grouped into three distinct groups: three women standing side by side, two men carrying a kind of padiola and two others sitting. Five of them perform quidian tasks of transporting implements associated with the work of the land; the two seated figures, one of whom could be Al Mouhatamid Ibn Abbad (who was also a poet and is considered to be among the best of the Andalusian poets), are observing the other figures.

Silves - Monumento a Al Mouhatamid Ibn Abbad

All figures are carved in different kind of stone from Silves and are standing on stainless steel 'islands'. Moreover, four stainless steel islands are inscribed with Arabic texts.

Sculptor

António Quina, Portuguese sculptor.

Sources & Information

Portugal up close, 1 July 2017, Silves – a Moorish legacy.
Maria Isabel Serra Granado Cordeiro Laranjo, Escultura pública no Algave séculos XX e XXI (1900-2009). Universidade de Lisboa, 2010 (PDF on-line).

Locatie (N 37°11'16" - W 8°26'15") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: ptag018; Photograph: 8 September 2017
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