Belonging to a public fountain that was embedded in the wall of the Turkumani Mosque, Cairo.
One emblem in the centre of the inscription:
هذا السبيل المبارك … الجاخّة سلما زوجة الجناب المرحوم العلائي أمير عليّ بن التركماني وذلك في شهر ربيع الأوّل سنة … أربعين وسبعمائة من الهجرة
[Ordered the construction?] of this blessed fountain… the pilgrim Salmā, wife of His Excellency, the late ‘Alā’ Amir al-dīn ‘Alī b. al-Turkumānī. This was done in the month of Rabī’ I of the year 740 of the Hijra (began 6th September 1339)…
Possible dating: 740/1339
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Simon Rousselot (April 6, 2020). Foundation text with the name of Salmā (Cairo). Mamluk Emblems Online Corpus. Retrieved October 16, 2024 from https://doi.org/10.58079/rdmo