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Obv: Double-headed eagle with wings displayed, all within floral quadrilobe, name and titles of Nasir al-Din Mahmud within petals of quadrilobe, continuation of name in outer margin.
Rev: Name and title of Ayyubid overlord in two lines; all within hexagram; mint formula and AH date in angles of hexagram; name and titles of Abbasid caliph in outer margins.[1]
Nāṣir al-Dīn Maḥmūd (ruled 1201–1222) was a ruler of the Hasankeyf of the Artuqid dynasty.[2] He was a son of Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammad (1174–1185).
He is particularly known to have commisionned an edition of the Al-Jāmi‘ fī ṣinā‘at al-ḥiyal of Ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari, devoted to the depiction of mechanical devices in 1206 Amid (modern-day Diyarbakır), in modern Turkey.[3] The miniatures are thought to reflect various aspects of the Artuqid court at the time.[3]
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![Court scene. Amid, modern-day Diyarbakır, Turkey, 1206 (Ms. Ahmet III 3472).[3]](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Mechanical_boat_%28court_scene%29%2C_probably_Amid%2C_modern-day_Diyarbak%C4%B1r%2C_Turkey%2C_1206_%28Ms._Ahmet_III_3472%29.jpg/200px-Mechanical_boat_%28court_scene%29%2C_probably_Amid%2C_modern-day_Diyarbak%C4%B1r%2C_Turkey%2C_1206_%28Ms._Ahmet_III_3472%29.jpg)
Court scene. Amid, modern-day Diyarbakır, Turkey, 1206 (Ms. Ahmet III 3472).[3] -
![Ruler (court scene detail). Amid, modern-day Diyarbakır, Turkey, 1206 (Ms. Ahmet III 3472).[3]](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Mechanical_boat_%28court_scene%2C_ruler%29%2C_Amid%2C_modern-day_Diyarbak%C4%B1r%2C_Turkey%2C_1206_%28Ms._Ahmet_III_3472%29.jpg/132px-Mechanical_boat_%28court_scene%2C_ruler%29%2C_Amid%2C_modern-day_Diyarbak%C4%B1r%2C_Turkey%2C_1206_%28Ms._Ahmet_III_3472%29.jpg)
Ruler (court scene detail). Amid, modern-day Diyarbakır, Turkey, 1206 (Ms. Ahmet III 3472).[3] -
![Turkic figure. Amid, modern-day Diyarbakır, Turkey, 1206 (Ms. Ahmet III 3472).[3]](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Mechanical_male_servant%2C_probably_Amid%2C_modern-day_Diyarbak%C4%B1r%2C_Turkey%2C_1206_%28Ms._Ahmet_III_3472%2C_fol._121v%29.jpg/117px-Mechanical_male_servant%2C_probably_Amid%2C_modern-day_Diyarbak%C4%B1r%2C_Turkey%2C_1206_%28Ms._Ahmet_III_3472%2C_fol._121v%29.jpg)
Turkic figure. Amid, modern-day Diyarbakır, Turkey, 1206 (Ms. Ahmet III 3472).[3] -
![Female servant. Amid, modern-day Diyarbakır, Turkey, 1206 (Ms. Ahmet III 3472).[3]](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Mechanical_female_servant%2C_probably_Amid%2C_modern-day_Diyarbak%C4%B1r%2C_Turkey%2C_1206_%28Ms._Ahmet_III_3472%29.jpg/116px-Mechanical_female_servant%2C_probably_Amid%2C_modern-day_Diyarbak%C4%B1r%2C_Turkey%2C_1206_%28Ms._Ahmet_III_3472%29.jpg)
Female servant. Amid, modern-day Diyarbakır, Turkey, 1206 (Ms. Ahmet III 3472).[3] -
![Turkic figure. Amid, modern-day Diyarbakır, Turkey, 1206 (Ms. Ahmet III 3472).[3]](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Mechanical_Slave%2C_probably_Amid%2C_modern-day_Diyarbak%C4%B1r%2C_Turkey%2C_1206_%28Ms._Ahmet_III_3472%2C_fol._121v%29.jpg/136px-Mechanical_Slave%2C_probably_Amid%2C_modern-day_Diyarbak%C4%B1r%2C_Turkey%2C_1206_%28Ms._Ahmet_III_3472%2C_fol._121v%29.jpg)
Turkic figure. Amid, modern-day Diyarbakır, Turkey, 1206 (Ms. Ahmet III 3472).[3]
![Court scene. Amid, modern-day Diyarbakır, Turkey, 1206 (Ms. Ahmet III 3472).[3]](view_image.php?q=Mahmud_of_Hasankeyf&sq=&lang=&file=File:Mechanical_boat_(court_scene),_probably_Amid,_modern-day_Diyarbak%C4%B1r,_Turkey,_1206_(Ms._Ahmet_III_3472).jpg)
![Ruler (court scene detail). Amid, modern-day Diyarbakır, Turkey, 1206 (Ms. Ahmet III 3472).[3]](view_image.php?q=Mahmud_of_Hasankeyf&sq=&lang=&file=File:Mechanical_boat_(court_scene,_ruler),_Amid,_modern-day_Diyarbak%C4%B1r,_Turkey,_1206_(Ms._Ahmet_III_3472).jpg)
![Turkic figure. Amid, modern-day Diyarbakır, Turkey, 1206 (Ms. Ahmet III 3472).[3]](view_image.php?q=Mahmud_of_Hasankeyf&sq=&lang=&file=File:Mechanical_male_servant,_probably_Amid,_modern-day_Diyarbak%C4%B1r,_Turkey,_1206_(Ms._Ahmet_III_3472,_fol._121v).jpg)
![Female servant. Amid, modern-day Diyarbakır, Turkey, 1206 (Ms. Ahmet III 3472).[3]](view_image.php?q=Mahmud_of_Hasankeyf&sq=&lang=&file=File:Mechanical_female_servant,_probably_Amid,_modern-day_Diyarbak%C4%B1r,_Turkey,_1206_(Ms._Ahmet_III_3472).jpg)
![Turkic figure. Amid, modern-day Diyarbakır, Turkey, 1206 (Ms. Ahmet III 3472).[3]](view_image.php?q=Mahmud_of_Hasankeyf&sq=&lang=&file=File:Mechanical_Slave,_probably_Amid,_modern-day_Diyarbak%C4%B1r,_Turkey,_1206_(Ms._Ahmet_III_3472,_fol._121v).jpg)
- ^ Whelan Type IC, 154-5; S&S Type 18; Album 1823.3. VF
- ^ Whelan 1988, p. 146.
- ^ a b c d e f g Balafrej, Lamia (19 December 2022). "Automated Slaves, Ambivalent Images, and Noneffective Machines in al-Jazari's Compendium of the Mechanical Arts, 1206". Inquiries into Art. History: 739–741. doi:10.11588/xxi.2022.4.91685.