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Tombstone, Ghazni, 1078, Epigraphic Round Script
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APA
Viola Allegranzi, ., & Martina Massullo, . (n.d.). Tombstone, Ghazni, 1078, Epigraphic Round Script (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3816
Chicago
Viola Allegranzi, and Martina Massullo. n.d. “Tombstone, Ghazni, 1078, Epigraphic Round Script.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3816
MLA
Viola Allegranzi, and Martina Massullo. Tombstone, Ghazni, 1078, Epigraphic Round Script, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3816
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Afghanistan_VA_MM_07
- Date
- 19 ramaḍān 470 H.
- April 5, 1078
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Afghanistan, Ghazni
- Present Location
- Kuwait National Museum
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Funerary text
- Text Content
- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم *كُلُّ نَفْسٍ ذَائِقَةُ الْمَوْتِ* وفات الشيخ العميد الجليل السيد أبو الفضل محمد بن ﻋ[لي ؟] الطوسي نور الله حفرته بتاريخ يوم التاسع ﻋ[شرة ...] رمضان سنة سبهين و اربع ماية
- Script
- Epigraphic Round Script
- Color of the Script
- no trace of color left
- Remarks (General Identification)
- The inscription contains a Quranic quotation (3:118; 21:35; 29;57).
- Type of Object
- cenotaph/tombstone
- Writing Surface
- stone\type of stone\marble
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- band
- Size (of the object)
- unknown
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- Two horizontal lines of writing on each of the two longitudinal faces of the top element of the tomb.
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
- Instrument
- chisel
- Remarks (Support)
- The tomb is part of The al-Sabah Collection, Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyya, inv. no. LSN 28 S
- Bibliography
- Giunta, Roberta. Les inscriptions funéraires de Ġaznī (IVe-IXe/Xe-XVe Siècles). Series Maior 8. Università degli studi di Napoli L’Orientale, 2003. 61-65, no. 6, pl. XV.
- al-Zayla'i, Ahmed b. Umar . “Tombstones.” In Dar Al-Athar al-Islamiyya, vols. 13–14. Kuwait, 1989. 13-14. 21-29
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- rectangular
- Internal Structure
- linear
- Character Spacing
- regular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- absent
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Ascenders
- Alif Ascenders
- alif - bevelled head
Descenders
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- wide 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 inclined to left
- medial short pointed denticles
counters
- hā' counters
- final one-eyed (mardufah) soft triangle on baseline
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- compact inverted triangle / open or closed eye
vocalization and diacritics
- ihmāl vocalization and diacritics
- V shape
Other
- additional characteristics
- two vegetal ornaments (leaf) used to balance the negative space
- V shape ornaments used to balance the negative space