And  what  an  effect  of  jewelry  may  be  produced  in  this
way  is  to  be  seen  in  the  Siileimanieh,  and  Yeni  Jami
—  where  two  shm  cypresses  make  dehcious  panels  of
green  Hght  above  the  mihrab  —  besides  other  mosques
and  tombs  of  the  sixteenth  and  seventeenth  centuries.
Mosques  are  even  more  notable  than  private  houses
for  the  inscriptions  on  their  walls.  Every  visitor  to
St.  Sophia  remembers  the  great  green  medallions  bear-
ing the  names  of  the  chief  personages  of  Islam  in  letters
of  gold.  In  purely  Turkish  mosques  similar  medallions
may  be  seen,  or  large  inscriptions  stencilled  like  panels
on  the  white  walls,  or  small  texts  hanging  near  the  floor.
