مدفن الأميرة رقية حليم – دراسة وصفية تحليلية

Document Type : Original Article

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Egyptian Higher institute for Tourism & Hotels

Abstract

search deals with the dome of Princess Ruqayyah Halim (the owner of the dome located in the Mamluk desert next to the domes of Queen Nariman and Princess Shiwakar), which consists of a shed, two units for funeral housing and a burial chamber. The name of the engineer, the date of construction and his telephone number appeared on a plaque on the northwestern facade. The dome also includes many decorative and architectural elements. The dome was exposed to the theft of marble works and steamers on the wooden shutters. The dome is covered by a suspended ceiling in the form of a shallow dome. The construction of domes over tombs spread in Egypt, and opinions differed about the oldest examples of this type in Egypt. Some of them went to say that the oldest example is the Al Tabataba scene 334 AH/943 AD from the Ikhshidid era (Lami, p. 30). Some of them went to say that the oldest examples that appeared in Egypt are the seven domes 400 AH/1010 AD (these domes are at the end of the Great Qarafa and are scenes over seven of the Bani al-Maghribi who were killed by the ruler after the decision of the minister Abu al-Qasim al-Hussein bin Ali al-Maghribi to go to Mecca, while al-Sakhawi mentions that the ruler killed only six of the family of this minister, namely his father,

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