Category and Technical study of Takht-e-Soleyman Tiles

In this article Takht-e-Soleyman’s Tiles are introduced and studied. In the tiling decoration of Abaqa-khan’s palace, Mongolic have profited the best technology of their period. Takht-e-Soleyman’s tiles are in various types as luster ware, gilded tiles, azure tiles, cyan tiles, geometric tiles and monochrome tiles that the luster ware and gilded tiles are the most precious of them. Most of these tiles have Persian and Arabic inscriptions and poems that generally poems are Farsi and traditions are Arabic. Takht-e-Soleyman’s tiles still have not been scientific category and technical study, and even they have not comprehensive introduced yet. This study has started on target to know glazes compound, body of the tiles structure and technology of these monuments. For this intention, some samples were tested and analyzed. Tests were chosen in the way to reach useful information of tiles and totally get a compilation of technical identification of the site’s variety of tiles. In pathology discourse proceeded to different damages that threaten tiles, and has considered damages that appeared on Takht-e-Soleyman’s tiles.