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Arch, Ghazni, 1044-1045, Epigraphic Round Script
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APA
Viola Allegranzi, ., & Martina Massullo, . (n.d.). Arch, Ghazni, 1044-1045, Epigraphic Round Script (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3811
Chicago
Viola Allegranzi, and Martina Massullo. n.d. “Arch, Ghazni, 1044-1045, Epigraphic Round Script.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3811
MLA
Viola Allegranzi, and Martina Massullo. Arch, Ghazni, 1044-1045, Epigraphic Round Script, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3811
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Afghanistan_VA_MM_02
- Date
- 436 H.
- 1044 – 1045
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Afghanistan, Ghazni
- Present Location
- unknown
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Foundation inscription
- Text Content
- جدد هذه العمارة على يد [...] الامير السيد الملك المؤيد شهاب الدولة وقطب الملة وفخر الامة ابو الفتح مودود بن مسعود اطال الـله بقاه في شهور سنة ست و ثلاثين واربع ماية
- Script
- Epigraphic Round Script
- Color of the Script
- no trace of color left
- Type of Object
- cenotaph/tombstone
- Writing Surface
- stone\type of stone\marble
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- band
- Size (of the object)
- 93 x 110; 104 x 32 cm
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- One line running from bottom to top on the right side, horizontally on the upper side, from top to bottom on the left side.
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
- Instrument
- chisel
- Remarks (Support)
- The arch was found reused as mihrab in a modern mosque, the lower part was placed upside down, so the beginning and end of the epigraphic band are out of place. The text is however complete.
- Bibliography
- Pinder-Wilson, Ralph. “Ghaznavid and Ghūrid Minarets.” Iran 39 (2001): 155-186. Here p. 180, note 22
- Giunta, Roberta. “Testimonianze epigrafiche dei regnanti ghaznavidi a Ġaznī.” Scritti in onore di Giovanni M. d’Erme (2005): 525–55; Here pp. 532–34.
- Online publications: TEI, no. 37830
- https://ghazni.bdus.cloud/islamic/finds/record/IG0076
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- rectangular
- Internal Structure
- linear
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- oblique
- Character Spacing
- regular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- absent
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Ascenders
- Kāf Ascenders
- Initial /medial compact form diagonal body
- stylized top arm crossing over the main shaft
- final vertical shaft
- ṭā' ẓā' ascenders
- rounded body
- shaft inclined to right
- ṭā' / ẓā' - non serifed
- ṭā' / ẓā' - bevelled head
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - rounded tail
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - rounded tail
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- deep bowl
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- short bowl
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- rounded base denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial nuanced top right hook
- 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) with elongated vertical shaft / sometimes with serif
- isolated one-eyed triangular (murabba'ah)
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- rounded head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- compact inverted triangle / open or closed eye
- mīm counters
- triangular head flat on baseline
Other
- additional characteristics
- symmetrical lam-alif with two diagonal arms
- jim-ha-kha curled eyebrow
- ornamental U shaped alif-lam used to balance the negative space
- vegetal scroll carved on the background