A picture of Khasikiyya, daughter of Muhammad Zafir, governor of Sidon, and sister of Sidi Ali, one of the grandees of Fakhr al-Din's state. Fakhr al-Din left his women in the fortress of Niha and took Khasikiyya with him to the Italian lands, for she was the most beloved of his women to him "for her beauty, her youth, and the standing of her family." The drawing shows her in her Lebanese dress: on her head a cap of gold to which a kerchief is fastened, hanging down her back; she wears trousers and a soft, long-sleeved shirt, her figure cinched by a tight embroidered bodice; she is clad in a qumbaz and shod in boots of soft leather. This picture was taken from a drawing dating to the eighteenth century.

(From the collection of the Directorate of Antiquities)