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 "id": "building/shah-i-zinda",
 "class": "building",
 "slug": "shah-i-zinda",
 "label": {
  "ar": "شاهد زند",
  "en": "Shah-i Zinda Necropolis, Samarkand"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "بطاقة أولية لمقبرة شاهد زند في سمرقند — مجمع أضرحة التيموريين على طريق يُقال إنه يفضي إلى قبر قوثام بن عباس؛ ثمانون نقشاً مسجلاً في قاموس النقوش الإسلامية، معظمها شواهد وكتابات قبرية وإيواءات دينية تعود إلى القرنين الثامن إلى العاشر الهجريين.",
  "en": "Draft card for the Shah-i Zinda necropolis in Samarkand — the Timurid burial complex said to lead toward the tomb of Qutham ibn Abbas; eighty inscriptions recorded in the Islamic Epigraphy Thesaurus, mostly epitaphs, funerary texts and religious inscriptions dating from the eighth to tenth centuries AH."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "objects"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "persia-central-asia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/mongol-post-mongol"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "tomb",
  "sources": [
   "source/tei-epigraphie"
  ],
  "external_ids": {
   "tei": "801,1009,1010,1012,1092,1916,1984,1985,3366,7043,7340,8753,8795,9881,15809,15811,15812,15872,16381,16954,17008,17019,17021,17024,17034,17035,17036,17037,17038,17039,17040,17041,17042,17043,17044,17045,17229,17231,17235,17257,17258,17259,17261,17263,17269,17272,17274,17277,17278,17295,17297,17301,17304,17308,17326,17327,17337,17339,17401,17404,17407,17408,17411,17412,17527,17528,17531,17610,17613,17630,17644,17653,17854,17857,17859,17864,17868,17871,17873,17876"
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "TEI Epigraphy Thesaurus — 80 fiches naming the necropolis of Shah-i Zinda, Samarkand (e.g. 801 construction 1360-61, 9881 entrance gate 1434-35, 17034 two-domed mausoleum 1449-50). New entity created from harvest evidence 9 Nov 2026.",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Flash High)",
   "model": "SWE-2 Flash High",
   "run": "tei-lead-entity-shah-i-zinda-2026-11-09"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 2,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-08",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "place/samarqand",
   "type": "located_in",
   "inverse": false
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "event/battle-of-qatwan-1141",
  "event/battle-of-samarkand-1598",
  "event/battle-of-samarkand-1613",
  "event/capture-of-samarkand-1740",
  "event/conquest-of-samarkand",
  "event/qutam-death-samarqand",
  "event/qutayba-samarqand",
  "event/samani-first-rihla-529"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}