Alexandria Museum Displays Marble Tablet Recording Waqf Office Renovation in Sultan Qaitbay’s Name

A marble tablet bearing an inscription about the renovation of a waqf office in the name of Sultan Al-Ashraf Qaitbay is among the artefacts housed at the Alexandria National Museum.

The inscribed stone forms part of the museum’s holdings relating to Egypt’s Islamic history, including the Mamluk period.

Its text records the renewal of an office associated with a waqf, an endowment established to support religious, charitable or public purposes.

The tablet sits within a broader collection of Egyptian antiquities spanning different eras, with Mamluk-era objects representing an important chapter in the country’s Islamic heritage.