Caravanserai of Qawṣūn (Cairo)

Located close to Bāb al-Nāṣr, Cairo. Photographs taken by Simon Rousselot on November 2019 Only the main door remains. Two emblems above it. Inscription to the right and left of the entrance: انشأ هذا الخان المبارك المقرّ الأشرف العالي ... قوصون الساقي الملكي الناصري … Constructed this blessed caravanserai His Most Noble and High Excellency … Qawṣūn the cup-bearer, (officer) of al-Malik al-Nāṣir… Possible dating: before 742/1342 Close-up of the emblem: To Qawṣūn's pag