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Tombstone, Ghazni, 1068, Epigraphic Round Script
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APA
Viola Allegranzi, ., & Martina Massullo, . (n.d.). Tombstone, Ghazni, 1068, Epigraphic Round Script (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3814
Chicago
Viola Allegranzi, and Martina Massullo. n.d. “Tombstone, Ghazni, 1068, Epigraphic Round Script.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3814
MLA
Viola Allegranzi, and Martina Massullo. Tombstone, Ghazni, 1068, Epigraphic Round Script, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3814
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Afghanistan_VA_MM_05
- Date
- 461 (muḥarram) H.
- 1068
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Afghanistan, Ghazni
- Present Location
- unknown
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Funerary text
- Text Content
- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم غفران من الله للشيخ الجليل السيد العالم ابي الفتح طقي الحنفي انار الله برهانه و بيض وجهه و نور حفرته / كان وفات السيد غدو الجمعة من محرم سنة احدى و ستين و اربع 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)
- unknown
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- One horizontal line which runs on each of the four faces of the top element and ends on the rectangular lower block covering the grave's earth mound.
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
- Instrument
- chisel
- Remarks (Support)
- The inscription on the inferior bloc ends on a second horizontal upper line due to a lack of space in the epigraphic band.
- Bibliography
- Giunta, Roberta. Les inscriptions funéraires de Ġaznī (IVe-IXe/Xe-XVe Siècles). Series Maior 8. Università degli studi di Napoli L’Orientale, 2003. 50-54, no. 4, pl. X-XI
- Online publications: https://ghazni.bdus.cloud/islamic/finds/record/IG4004
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- rectangular
- Internal Structure
- linear
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- oblique
- 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
- yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders
- backward oblique stroke
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- short straight bowl on baseline
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- rounded base denticles
counters
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- compact inverted triangle / open or closed eye
vocalization and diacritics
- ihmāl vocalization and diacritics
- V shape
Other
- additional characteristics
- initial bā’ denticle elongated upward (basmala)
- ornamental U-shape alif-lam and V shape used to balance the negative space