イスラーム玉座像におけるマンディールの意義と図像の発展

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The Mandil is one of the elements which characterize the throne scene of the islamic art. The posture that the ruler himself has the Mandil in his hand appears only in the islamic throne scene.
The most common type of the representation of the Mandil in the throne scene is that the Mandil itself is folded in two pieces and the ringlike top of it is shown from the back of the hand of the ruler, and the ruler put the hand on his knee. From 10th to 17th century, through the periods, the artists of the islamic lands had kept the traditional iconographic feature of the Mandil very strictly.
The reasons that the Mandil became an important element of the islamic throne scene and was held by the ruler himself are presumably related with Tiraz. Tiraz was a sign ('alamah) of the islamic rulers. The fact that the Mandils of early periods bear the decorations like Tiraz means that the Mandil was the object which represented the sovereignty of the islamic ruler.
The form of the Mandil and the way of its holding seem to be borrowed from the way of holding the clothes in Parthian, Roman and Byzantine arts. In those arts the people held the handful cloths of the costume by the hand, forming the ring-like top upon the back of the hand.
After the Mongol conquest the traditions of Tiraz as 'alamah of the ruler had disappeared, but the Mandil has remained as a symbol of the ruler on the throne scene in the islamic art.