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Tombstone, Ghazni, 1072, Epigraphic Round Script
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APA
Viola Allegranzi, ., & Martina Massullo, . (n.d.). Tombstone, Ghazni, 1072, Epigraphic Round Script (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3815
Chicago
Viola Allegranzi, and Martina Massullo. n.d. “Tombstone, Ghazni, 1072, Epigraphic Round Script.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3815
MLA
Viola Allegranzi, and Martina Massullo. Tombstone, Ghazni, 1072, Epigraphic Round Script, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3815
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Afghanistan_VA_MM_06
- Date
- 25 ramaḍān 464 H.
- June 15, 1072
- 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 اللهم اغفر وارحم الشيخ الاجل السيد ابي بكر محمد بن احمد بن علي رحمه الـله ونور قبره توفي ليلة الجمعة الخامس والعشرين من شهر رمضان سنة اربع وستين واربعماية / بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم *كُلُّ نَفْسٍ ذَآئِقَةُ الْمَوْتِ وَإِنَّمَا تُوَفَّوْنَ أُجُورَكُمْ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ فَمَن زُحْزِحَ عَنِ *
- Script
- Other
- Color of the Script
- no trace of color left
- Remarks (General Identification)
- The inscription contains a Quranic quotation (Quran 3:185, incomplete).
- 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 on each of the four faces of the moulded top and on the four sides of the stepped lower element (upper face) ; two additional short lines on a square cartouche on the upper face of the lower element.
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
- Instrument
- chisel
- Remarks (Support)
- The tomb is composed of a stepped element and a moulded top. The inscription runs on both elements, the top element shows quotation from Quran while the lower one is inscribed with the name of the deceased and date of death.
- Bibliography
- Jalali, Ghulam Gilani. Ġazna va Ġaznaviyān. Kabul, 1951. 262-63.
- Riḍā, Muḥammad. Riyāḍ al-alwāḥ. Muštamil bar katibahā-yi qubūr va abniya-yi Ġazna. Kabul, 1967. 196.
- Giunta, Roberta. Les inscriptions funéraires de Ġaznī (IVe-IXe/Xe-XVe Siècles). Series Maior 8. Università degli studi di Napoli L’Orientale, 2003. 55-60, no. 5, pl. XII-XIV .
- Online publications: https://ghazni.bdus.cloud/islamic/finds/record/IG4005
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Internal Structure
- linear
- Character Spacing
- regular spaces between characters
- Elongated Letters
- yā’ rajiah
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- round dot
Ascenders
Descenders
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - s-shaped
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- wide deep bowl
- yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders
- backward horizontal stroke
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- straight bowl on baseline
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- rounded base denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial perpendicular to baseline
- medial short pointed denticles
counters
- hā' counters
- final one-eyed (mardufah) rounded
- isolated one-eyed triangular (murabba'ah)
- initial / medial double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah)
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- rounded head
- mīm counters
- rounded head
vocalization and diacritics
- ihmāl vocalization and diacritics
- superscript miniature kāf for medial or inital form
Other
- additional characteristics
- diacritical points are not systematically used
- symmetrical lam-alif with two diagonal arms
- tall vertical dal/dhal upper stroke (Muhammad)
- dots with superposed V shape ornaments used to balance the negative space
- initial ba denticle elongated upwards (basmala)