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Portal, Sistan, 1213-1221?, Other
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Cite
APA
Viola Allegranzi, . (n.d.). Portal, Sistan, 1213-1221?, Other (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3809
Chicago
Viola Allegranzi. n.d. “Portal, Sistan, 1213-1221?, Other.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3809
MLA
Viola Allegranzi. Portal, Sistan, 1213-1221?, Other, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3809
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Afghanistan_VA_05
- Author
- Viola Allegranzi
- Date
- 610-618? H.
- 1213 – 1221
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Approximate
- Place of Production
- Afghanistan, Sistan, Great Mosque of Peshawaran
- Present Location
- unknown conservation state
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Titulature
- Text Content
- المظفر العالم العادل الغازی یمین الدنیا [والدین؟] ... ⁄ ... المعظم السعید (؟) …
- Script
- Other
- Color of the Script
- no trace of color left
- Remarks (General Identification)
- The inscription was highly fragmented already at the time of the earliest photographic documentation. The titulature may refer to Yamīn al-Dīn Bahrām Shāh (ca. 610-618/1213-1221), ruler of the Nasrid line of the Maliks of Sistan.
- Type of Object
- architectural element\portal
- Writing Surface
- plaster
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- One line framing the entrance ivan of the building.
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
- Instrument
- chisel
- Remarks (Support)
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In existing photographs, only short sections of the inscription are preserved, on the lower right and upper left sides of the
entrance respectively. In some previous publications, the mosque has been wrongly identified with the site of Kul Marut. - Bibliography
- RCEA, IX, no 3583
- Hackin, J., J. Meunie, and J. Carl. Diverses Recherches Archéologiques En Afghanistan. Paris, 1959., figs. 114-115.
- Online publication: TEI, no. 8314
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
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- rounded pointed head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle
- mīm counters
- circular head
vocalization and diacritics
- ihmāl vocalization and diacritics
- V shape
Other
- additional characteristics
- Four circular holes arranged in an inverted triangle adorn the shafts
- An ornamental V-shaped element balance the negative space
- An intricate scroll with vegetal patterns in openwork is carved on the background