Located in the Bab Sreeja neighborhood, Damascus.
Two emblems flanking the inscription:
القناة المباركة العبد الفقير الى الله تعالى علاء الدين … البريدي
[Ordered to construct this] blessed aqueduct, the servant yearning for God the Exalted, ‘Alā’ al-dīn … the dispatch-rider.
Possible dating: around 710/1310
To ‘Alā’ al-dīn al-Barīdī’s page
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Simon Rousselot (June 29, 2021). Fountain of ‘Alā’ al-dīn al-Barīdī (Damascus). Mamluk Emblems Online Corpus. Retrieved October 6, 2024 from https://doi.org/10.58079/rdov