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- Sebka (Arabic: شبكة, romanized: shabaka, lit. 'net'): 80  refers to a type of decorative motif used in western Islamic ("Moorish") architecture and Mudéjar...
- : 32, 34  A sebka or darj wa ktaf motif on one of the facades of the H****an Tower in Rabat, Morocco (late 12th century) Variation of the sebka motif with...
- trefoil shape.: 32, 34  A sebka or darj wa ktaf motif on one of the facades of the H****an Tower in Rabat Another variation on the sebka motif, with a trefoil-like...
- spandrels. The two other vertical zones of the facades feature large panels of sebka motifs, each of which springs from a blind arcade of polylobed arches supported...
- Bou Inania Madrasa in Fez (1350–1355), within the sunken spaces of the sebka motif.: 336  In the 16th century most of North Africa came under Ottoman...
- promoted new forms and decorative designs such as the multifoil arch and the sebka motif, probably influenced by the Caliphate-period architecture of Córdoba...
- romanized: al-tawrīq, lit. 'foliage'), epigraphic motifs, geometric motifs, or sebka motifs. It could be further sculpted into three-dimensional muqarnas (mocárabes...
- south side there are caliphal columns that support arches with decoration (sebka) of plaster. This decoration covers a porch. In the porch there is an entrance...
- the wall surfaces above them are carved with a characteristic Moroccan sebka motif. Inside, the mausoleum chamber is covered by a dome of ****gany wood...
- rectangular zone filled with sebka decoration above three blind polylobed arches with small colonettes. The negative spaces inside the sebka pattern are each carved...