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Islamic pattern and ornament on the mausoleum wall at the Shah-i-Zinda, Samarkand, Uzbekistan. They can be considered a aprticular type of arabesque developed from patterning of Byzantine and Coptic art. Shah-i-Zinda is a necropolis and includes mausoleums and other ritual buildings of 9-14th and 19th centuries. The complex comprise three groups: lower, central and upper connected by arched dommed