Sultan Quli’s Garden-Tomb: Discovery of the Enclosure Wall
In the Gulzar-I-Asafi text there is a mention of a garden, Bagh-I-Faiz Asar, within which stood the tomb of Sultan Quli – the founder of the Qutb Shahi dynasty. However, the general belief thus far has been that unlike the garden-tombs of the Mughal dynasty, the Qutb Shahi tombs were not set within gardens. To the south-east corner of Sultan Quli’s Tomb stands a stretch of an arcaded wall. Excavations in continuity of this stretch revealed the southern stretch of the enclosure wall, built in fine ashlar masonry and nine feet of which was below ground. On continuing excavations on the northern and western sides the wall was similarly discovered though in large sections the ashlar masonry had been stripped.
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