Heritage record
Tomb of Shah Ali Akbar (Suraj Miani)
PunjabTombProtected
The tomb of Shah Ali Akbar is octagonal in plan, standing on a 1.8 m high square platform measuring 30 m and built in finely baked brick tiles laid in mud mortar. Each octagon has pronounced perpendicular wall, 11.4 m high and supported by sloping buttresses. The interior of the tomb is plastered and embellished with fresco paintings. The surface of the deeply recessed arches of the openings provided to each octagon has been divided into several horizontal and vertical panels. The interior is filled with two main graves placed on a brick platform crowned with a wooden canopy almost in the center.
Photographs: Department of Archaeology & Museums national inventory record, displayed from the official source (doam.gov.pk). Not PWHI photography.
- Record ID
- 6427
- Province / territory
- Punjab
- District
- Multan
- Typology
- Monument
- Subtype
- Tomb
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Protected by The Antiquity Act 1975 (As amended in 1992) (instrument: Protected by The Antiquity Act 1975 (As amended in 1992))
- Coordinates
- 30.22152, 71.43014 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Khan, Ahmad Nabi. (1987). Archaeological Sites and Historical Monuments Protected Under the Antiquities Act, 1975. Federal Department of Archaeology & Museums, Government of Pakistan, Islamabad.
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