In the process of the latest repairs in 2005, it was transferred to the sepulchral cell in the Khoja Ahmad mausoleum. The text is written in the thuluth script. The hundreds in the date have been lost, yet, based on the paleographic indications and the style of the tombstone, it may be, without doubt, supposed that «eight hundred»» was written in the last part of the text.
Great amir died // [by name of] Amir Sayyid Abu // of Sa‘id son of the great amir // Amir Sayyid Mahdi // the son of the great amir, Amir // Sayyid Haidar // On the date of the blessed month // of jumada al-akhir, of the year of // [Eight hundred] eighty third [September-October, 1478].
You can read more about the inscriptions on the buildings of the memorial ensemble in the book-album “Samarkand. Shakhi-Zinda” series “Architectural epigraphy of Uzbekistan”.
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