Mausoleum of al-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub

Name of structure: Mausoleum of al-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: Mausoleum
Country or main area: Egypt
Region within country or main area:
City or area within region: Cairo
Date of structure: 1250
Century of structure 1: 13 AD
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic:

Traces of glass mosaic in the conch indicated that this was once decorated in the same manner as Shajarat al-Durr’s own mausoleum (trefoil design).  Decoration no longer survives and was indecipherable by the 1930s.  Tomb adjoins the madrasa. 
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic:
Date of mosaic: 1250
Century of mosaic 1: 13 AD
Century of mosaic 2:
Silver tessera at site:
Gold tessera at site:
Colour tessera at site:
Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)?
Has analysis been done?
Samples taken from where?
Excavation and restoration campaigns:
Bibliography of mainly technical resources:

Behrans-Abouseif, Doris, Islamic Architecture in Cairo: An Introduction (Leiden: Brill, 1969), p. 91


Kenney, Ellen, ‘Mixed Metaphors: Iconography and Medium in Mamluk Glass Mosaic Decoration’, Artibus Asiae, 66.2 (2006), 175-200, p. 179
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Comments: Built by Shajarat al-Durr

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