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Panel, Ghazni, 1058, Epigraphic Round Script
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APA
Viola Allegranzi, ., & Martina Massullo, . (n.d.). Panel, Ghazni, 1058, Epigraphic Round Script (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3813
Chicago
Viola Allegranzi, and Martina Massullo. n.d. “Panel, Ghazni, 1058, Epigraphic Round Script.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3813
MLA
Viola Allegranzi, and Martina Massullo. Panel, Ghazni, 1058, Epigraphic Round Script, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3813
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Afghanistan_VA_MM_04
- Date
- 450 H. ramaḍān
- October 10, 1058 – November 11, 1058
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Afghanistan, Ghazni
- Present Location
- unknown
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Foundation inscription
- Text Content
- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم امر ببناء هذا المسجد والمحراب ابي جعفر محمد بن احمد بن علي بن احمد في شهر رمضان سنة خمسين واربع ماية
- Script
- Epigraphic Round Script
- Color of the Script
- no trace of color left
- Type of Object
- architectural element\panel
- Writing Surface
- stone\type of stone\marble
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- band
- Size (of the object)
- unknown
- 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 formula al-mulk li-llāh and the names of two individuals are inscribed in Kufic letters inside the niche.
- Bibliography
- Giunta Roberta, Les inscriptions de la ville de Gazni (Afghanistan), PhD thesis, Université Aix-Marseille I, 1999, 3 vols (unpublished). Here vol. I, pp. 345-348, no. 1a, pls. 327, 328
- Giunta, Roberta. “Un texte de construction d’époque Ġūride à Ġaznī.” Studi in onore di Umberto Scerrato per il suo settantacinquesimo compleanno, Series Minor, vol. 2, no. 65 (2003): 439–55. Here p. 448
- Online publications: TEI, no. 38445
- https://ghazni.bdus.cloud/islamic/finds/record/IG0056
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- rectangular
- Internal Structure
- linear
- Character Spacing
- regular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- rare
- Elongated Letters
- yā’ rajiah
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Ascenders
Descenders
- mīm descenders
- elongated s-shape
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- wide deep bowl
- jīm ḥāʾ khā' and ‘ain ghayn descenders
- backward tail
- yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders
- backward horizontal stroke below baseline
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - curvilinear flattened bowl
denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial slightly inclined to left
counters
- hā' counters
- initial/medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr) with right hook
- final one-eyed (mardufah) rounded
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- rounded head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- soft inverted triangle
- mīm counters
- circular head
vocalization and diacritics
- ihmāl vocalization and diacritics
- V shape
Other
- additional characteristics
- dots with superposed V shape ornaments used to balance the negative space