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Masonry, Badghis Province, 1166 or 1176, Other
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Cite
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/3807
Chicago
Viola Allegranzi. n.d. “Masonry, Badghis Province, 1166 or 1176, Other.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3807
MLA
Viola Allegranzi. Masonry, Badghis Province, 1166 or 1176, Other, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3807
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Afghanistan_VA_03
- 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
- Text Content
- هو (أ)جل رسول الـله صلی الـله عليه ...
- Script
- Other
- Color of the Script
- no trace of color left
- Remarks (General Identification)
- The start and end of the inscription are lost; some words at the beginning of the preserved section are damaged and undeciphered.
- Type of Object
- architectural element\masonry
- Writing Surface
- plaster
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- band
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- One line running vertically (from top to bottom) then horizontally on the northern and western walls of the north ivan, at the springing of the arches.
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
- Instrument
- chisel
- Remarks (Support)
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Only a short section of the inscription is preserved in the northwestern corner of the north ivan. The first part of this section,
inscribed vertically on the northern wall, is highly damaged. 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. 15, fig. 15
- 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, 19.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Internal Structure
- linear
- Character Spacing
- regular spaces between characters
- 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
- final one-eyed (mardufah) rounded
Other
- additional characteristics
- Three circular holes arranged in an inverted triangle adorn the shafts
- An intricate scroll with vegetal patterns in openwork is carved on the background