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Masonry, Badghis province, 1166 or 1176, Other
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APA
Viola Allegranzi, . (n.d.). Masonry, Badghis province, 1166 or 1176, Other (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3806
Chicago
Viola Allegranzi. n.d. “Masonry, Badghis province, 1166 or 1176, Other.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3806
MLA
Viola Allegranzi. Masonry, Badghis Province, 1166 or 1176, Other, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3806
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Afghanistan_VA_02
- Author
- Viola Allegranzi
- Date
- ramaḍān 571 (or: 561) H.
- 1166 – 1176
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Afghanistan, Badghis province, Jawand district, Shah-i Mashhad Madrasa
- Present Location
- Shah-i Mashhad madrasa, Badghis province, Afghanistan, northwestern corner of the north ivan
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Devotional text
- Nature of the Text
- Hadith
- Text Content
- واتخـ]ـذوا المساجد بیوتا عودوا قلوبکم الرقة وأكثر والتفكر والبكاء ولا تختلفن بكم الأهواء]
- Script
- Other
- Color of the Script
- no trace of color left
- Remarks (General Identification)
- The text contains part of a Hadith; only the final section of the inscription is preserved.
- Type of Object
- architectural element\arch
- Writing Surface
- plaster
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- band
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- One line running from top to bottom along the arch on the upper back wall of the north ivan. Some letters as well as the last five words of the inscriptions are inscribed on the upper part of the band.
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
- Instrument
- chisel
- Remarks (Support)
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Only a portion of the left-hand side of the arch is preserved. The writing surface is concave. The date is recorded in the
inscription (in border Kufic) on the portal of the monument; this text is damaged and the reading of the tens is uncertain. - Bibliography
- Casimir, Michael J., and Bernt Glatzer. “Šāh-i Mašhad, a Recently Discovered Madrasah of the Ghurid Period in Ġarǧistān (Afghanistan).” East and West 21, no. 1/2 (1971): 53–68. Here p. 57, no. 14, fig. 6, 33, 34.
- Glatzer, Bernt. “The Madrasah of Shah-i-Mashhad in Badgis’.” Afghanistan, no. 25 (1973): 46–68. Here p. 60, no. 14, fig. 15, 16
- Glatzer, Bernt. “Das Mausoleum und die Moschee desGhoriden Ghiyāth Ud-Dīn in Herat.” Afghanistan Journal VII, no. 1 (1980): 6–22. Here p. 18, fig. 19
- Hillenbrand, Robert. “The Ghurid Tomb at Herat.” In Cairo to Kabul: Afghan and Islamic Studies Presented to Ralph Pinder-Wilson, edited by W. Ball and L. Harrow. Melisende, 2002, p. 123-143. Here p. 141, pl. 12.22.
- Najimi, Abdul Wassay. “The Ghurid Madrasa and Mausoleum of Shāh-i Mashhad Ghur, Afghanistan.” Iran 53 (2015): 161–63. Here p. 161-163, fig. 18 (reading by A. Ghouchani).
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Internal Structure
- linear
- Presence of Elongation
- absent
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Ascenders
Descenders
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- thick bowl
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- rounded base denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- medial short pointed denticles
counters
- hā' counters
- initial / medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr)
- initial / medial double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah)
- final one-eyed (mardufah) rounded
- mīm counters
- circular head
Other
- additional characteristics
- Three circular holes arranged in an inverted triangle adorn the shafts; the lower hole has sometimes an inverted-drop shape
- An intricate scroll with vegetal patterns in openwork is carved on the background