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Tombstone, Ghazni, 1055, Epigraphic Round Script
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APA
Viola Allegranzi, ., & Martina Massullo, . (n.d.). Tombstone, Ghazni, 1055, Epigraphic Round Script (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3812
Chicago
Viola Allegranzi, and Martina Massullo. n.d. “Tombstone, Ghazni, 1055, Epigraphic Round Script.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3812
MLA
Viola Allegranzi, and Martina Massullo. Tombstone, Ghazni, 1055, Epigraphic Round Script, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3812
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Afghanistan_VA_MM_03
- Date
- 447 H. rabīʿ al-āḫir
- 1055
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Afghanistan, Ghazni
- Present Location
- unknown
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Funerary text
- Text Content
- اللهم اغفرابي سهل محمد الباغبان الهروي في شهر ربيع الاخر سنة سبع واربعين واربع ماية ; كُلُّ نَفْسٍ ذَائِقَةُ الْمَوْتِ وَنَبْلُوكُم بِالشَّرِّ وَالْخَيْرِ فِتْنَةً وَإِلَيْنَا تُرْجَعُونَ
- Script
- Epigraphic Round Script
- Color of the Script
- no trace of color left
- Remarks (General Identification)
- The inscription contains a Quranic quotation (Quran 21:35).
- Type of Object
- cenotaph/tombstone
- Writing Surface
- stone\type of stone\marble
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- other
- Size (of the object)
- unknown
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- Six horizontal lines on the Eastern and on the Northen face of the top element inscribed inside an arched cartouche.
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
- Instrument
- chisel
- Remarks (Support)
- The tomb is composed of a monolithic two-stepped base and a monolithic humpbacked top. The epitaph is inscribed on the top element.
- Bibliography
- Riḍā, Muḥammad. Riyāḍ al-alwāḥ. Muštamil bar katibahā-yi qubūr va abniya-yi Ġazna. Kabul, 1967. 119-20.
- Giunta, Roberta. “The Tomb of Muḥammad Al-Harawī (447/1055) at Ġaznī (Afghanistan) and Some New Observations on the Tomb of Maḥmūd the Ġaznavid.” East and West 51, no. 1/2 (2001): 109–26.
- Giunta, Roberta. Les inscriptions funéraires de Ġaznī (IVe-IXe/Xe-XVe Siècles). Series Maior 8. Università degli studi di Napoli L’Orientale, 2003. 27-44, no. 2, pl. IV-VIII .
- Online publications: https://ghazni.bdus.cloud/islamic/finds/record/IG4003
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- other
- Internal Structure
- linear
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- oblique
- Character Spacing
- regular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- rare
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Ascenders
Descenders
- mīm descenders
- horizontal, curvilinear tail
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- plunging open bowl
- jīm ḥāʾ khā' and ‘ain ghayn descenders
- backward tail
- opening horizontal
- backward tail with final hook
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- short straight bowl on baseline
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- rounded base denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial perpendicular to baseline
counters
- hā' counters
- initial / medial double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah)
- final one-eyed (mardufah) rounded
- final one-eyed (mardufah) with elongated vertical shaft
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- rounded head
- mīm counters
- circular head
vocalization and diacritics
Other
- additional characteristics
- ornamental U shaped alif-lam used to balance negative space
- isolated V shape and trilobed flowers
- medial tā’ denticle with ascending vegetal element (word: fitna)