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HANDS ON Traditional Crafts at The City of the Dead in Cairo

Tomb of the Seven Maidens – qubba saba‘ banat (No.110), A.D.1450 / 854 A.H.

It is not known for whom this tomb was built, nor who the Seven Maidens in its popular name were. The tomb chamber and zone-of-transition are stone-built, and covered with a plain plastered brick dome. The cornices of muqarnas niches at the tops of the walls and over the zone-of-transition are a rare feature in Cairo. The remnants of three vaulted chambers are located immediately to the west, but not aligned with the tomb, probably indicating that like others in the cemetery, this mausoleum was once part of a larger complex.

This website is a result of a conservation and research project at the Hawd of Sultan al-Ashraf Qaitbey in Cairo's City of the Dead. The project was financed by the European Union Delegation to Egypt with a contribution from the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and implemented in 2014 by Cairo-based ARCHiNOS Architecture in association with the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo under supervision of the Ministry of Antiquities and Heritage.

The web site is funded, produced, and designed by ARCHiNOS Architecture.

Website designed in 2014 by Maha Akl for ARCHiNOS Architecture.

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