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Sassanid Exhibition to Say Farewell to Cernuschi Museum. The exhibition of Sassanid Culture and Art at Paris’ Cernuschi Museum will come to an end next week and the artifacts on display at the museum for nearly three months will return home.
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Tomb of Avicenna
Avicenna
The mausoleum of Ibn Sina (Avicenna), hamadan, was built in 1952
above the tomb of one of Iran`s greatest philosophers and scholars,
known to the West as Avicenna.
Born near Bokhara about the year A.D. 980, he lived a full and
dangerous life, serving a variety of rival princes as a physician
and vizier, dying at the age of 57 in Hamadan.
His Canon, the first systematic work of medical science, was taught
in European universities until the eighteenth century, and his
contributions to philosophy, logic, mathematics, optics and
pharmaceutics make him one of the most prolific and original minds
of all times.
Modern Hamadan is presumed to be built on the site of Ecbatana, a
Median capital, the capture of which in 550 BC by Cyrus the Great
marks the foundation of the Persian Empire. The mausoleum of
Avicenna is built in the style of the Gunbad-i-Qabus, a famous
eleventh century funerary tower in north-east Iran.
The mausoleum of Avicenna is an imitation of the oldest historic
building of the Islamic period namely the Ghabus Gonbad which is
also contemporary to Avicenna major differences between these two
building however are only two namely the size of the mausoleum of
Avicenna which is half in size compared to that of Ghabus Gonbad and
this is mainly because of the restricted space allocated to this
purpose and the other difference lies in the gap between the
buttresses in Avicenna mausoleum whereas in the Ghabus Gonbad
building there is no access to outside or inside the tower except
for the entrance and a small hole in the bottom of the dome. This
mausoleum has been constructed on twelve tall cement foundations.
The grave of Sheikhol Raeis Avicenna has been placed in the center
of the 12 foundations of the tower and next to him is the grave of
Sheik Abu Saeid Dakhdook who was Avicenna`s friend and host. Both
graves have been covered with a flat marble stone with an
inscription in nine lines.
The inscription suggests 428 A.H. as the date when it was written.
The Avicenna museum, which is situated inside the complex, includes
ancient objects, anthropology section and books written by Avicenna.
The museum is open to public and embraces such objects as bronze
statues belonging to the first millennium B.C., coins, containers,
marbles and silver objects belonging to the Sasanids era, books,
superb carpets, etc.
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