Wooden Beam

Long beam, probably a lintel made of painted wood and carved with a series of large lobed and cusped arches alternating with narrow trefoil arches. This beam is supported on small diagonally striped columns, the former containing the word "happiness" (al-yumn) written, both right-way-around and mirrored, the letter "nun" prolonged into hastae and framing a scalloped shell motif. The space above, filled with fruiting vine, the smaller trefoil-arches filled with a knotted interlace below and shell motif above, the upper interstices also filled with fruiting vine, a narrow border of simple flowerheads above.