Sunday, 6 November 2011

herat monumen

HERAT Monumen

HERAT Monumen
Seven cript shrine
Haft Qalam. Herat. Gazargah. Haft Qalam (Seven Pens), cenotaph (1496) of son of Sultan Husain-i Baiqara, detail. Carved black marble
Haft Qalam(seven pens) is a tomb covered with black marble in Khaja Abdullah Ansari Complex in the Herat city, the stone is carved with seven figures called Haft Qalam (seven pens), the text above the tomb is translated that, “ On the day of the great kings death the lord sent him repose, and the pin of fate inscribed his simple epitaph, Rest in peace. (A. H. 718)

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