Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Gonbad-e Qābus' has mentioned 'Tower' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| [1] It is a cylindrical tomb tower that reaches c. 61 metres (200 feet) and can be seen from some 30 kilometres (19 miles) away. | WIKI |
| Considered to be a masterpiece of Iranian architecture, according to Oleg Grabar it achieves an "almost perfect balance between a purpose (princely glory beyond death), a form (cylindrical tower transformed into a star), and a single material (brick)". | WIKI |
| [4][5] The Gonbad-e Qabus tower is the best known tower tomb in northern Iran and has featured in many publications. | WIKI |
| The inscription bands on the tower, written in rhymed prose, state that Qabus ordered the foundation of the tower built during his lifetime, in 1006/7. | WIKI |
| [1] In terms of design, the Gonbad-e Qabus tower resembles other cylindrical tomb towers on Iran's Caspian Sea littoral. | WIKI |
| [1] However, the Gonbad-e Qabus tower differs from other examples because of its "extraordinary height". | WIKI |
| Taking its conical roof into account, the tower measures c. 50 metres (160 feet) above ground; this is three times its exterior diameter. | WIKI |
| (...) The carefully planned text combines with the tower's formal purity and soaring verticality to make it one of the most famous and memorable monuments in all of Iranian architecture. | WIKI |
| Oleg Grabar (1975) wrote that the Gonbad-e Qabus tower "clearly belongs to the general category of a secular architecture for conspicuous consumption". | WIKI |
| [8] While discussing the forms of the tower tombs of northern Iran (which includes the Gonbad-e Qabus tower), Grabar stated that they may be connected with Zoroastrian funerary structures. | WIKI |
| [9] According to Melanie Michailidis (2009), Zoroastrian influence is "manifestly present" in the tower tombs of northern Iran, and can be seen in their height, purpose and forms. | WIKI |
| Though the tower is meant to be Qabus's mausoleum, there is no body buried inside, similar to the other tomb towers of northern Iran. | WIKI |
| Qabus's tower meets numerous criteria for disposing of the dead in the Zoroastrian way, but it does not "obviously" fit the category of an "orthodox Zoroastrian way of disposing of the dead", nor does it match a "proper Muslim burial". | WIKI |
| Visible from great distances in the surrounding lowlands near the ancient Ziyarid capital, Jorjan, the 53-metre high Gonbad-e Qxc4x81bus tower dominates the town laid out around its base in the early 20th century. | UNESCO |
| The towerxe2x80x99s hollow cylindrical shaft of unglazed fired brick tapers up from an intricate geometric plan in the form of a ten pointed star to a conical roof. | UNESCO |
| The tower is an outstanding example of early Islamic innovative structural design based on geometric formulae which achieved great height in load-bearing brickwork. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (iv): The monument is an outstanding example of an Islamic commemorative tower whose innovative structural design illustrates the exceptional development of mathematics and science in the Muslim world at the turn of the first millennium AD. | UNESCO |
| The tomb tower and surrounding area are managed jointly by the Municipality and ICHHTO in accordance with the Master Plan for Gonbad-e Qxc4x81bus town (1989) and the detailed plan (2009), which aim to preserve the historic and visual characteristics of the city. | UNESCO |