9 Shirin Bika mausoleum - interieur
Similarly, the monument's interior was in poor shape prior to restoration, but old photographs and the surviving elements provided conservators with a roadmap of the original design, which they approximated with high-quality reconstructions, such that it is difficult to tell where the original elements end and the restored ones begin.
This monument is one of only five Timurid-era tombs with paysage imagery, depicting rural landscapes. The conservators heavily restored several of these paintings but others were left in their forlorn, all-but-blank condition.
In the corners of the mausoleum muqarnas make the transition from square to octagon to support the dome.
In the floor plan you can see starters for stars. In the apex there's a half 16-ppointed star.
