Greater Iran – Items
Panel, Ghazni, 1059-1099, Epigraphic Round Script
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APA
Viola Allegranzi, ., & Martina Massullo, . (n.d.). Panel, Ghazni, 1059-1099, Epigraphic Round Script (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3817
Chicago
Viola Allegranzi, and Martina Massullo. n.d. “Panel, Ghazni, 1059-1099, Epigraphic Round Script.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3817
MLA
Viola Allegranzi, and Martina Massullo. Panel, Ghazni, 1059-1099, Epigraphic Round Script, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3817
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Afghanistan_VA_MM_08
- Date
- 541 - 592 H.
- 1059 – 1099
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Afghanistan, Ghazni
- Present Location
- Kabul, National Museum of Afghanistan (lower fragments of the panel only)
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Quran
- Text Content
- بِٱلْقِسْطِ لَۚآ إِلَٰه ... ٱلْإِسْلَٰامُ ومَا ٱخْتَلَفَ ٱلَّذِينَ أُوتُوا۟ ٱلْكِتَابَ
- Script
- Epigraphic Round Script
- Color of the Script
- no trace of color left
- Remarks (General Identification)
- The Quranic verses (3:18-19) are partly preserved.
- Type of Object
- architectural element\panel
- Writing Surface
- stone\type of stone\marble
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- band
- Size (of the object)
- 50 x54.5 cm (lower fragments only)
- 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. Only two sections on the upper and left side are preserved.
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
- Instrument
- chisel
- Remarks (Support)
- The three fragments composing the panel were found reused in various locations in the Ghazni area. The shahada and part of the titulature of the Ghaznavid Sultan Ibrāhīm (r. 451-492H./1059-1099) are inscribed in Kufic letters on the upper fragment; the word "Allāh" is repeated on the lower fragment, 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Roberta, Les inscriptions de la ville de Gazni (Afghanistan), PhD thesis, Université Aix-Marseille I, 1999, 3 vols (unpublished).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, p. 368, 369, no. 6a, pls. 341, 342.
- Online publications: https://ghazni.bdus.cloud/islamic/finds/marble/panels-niche-design/record/IG0039
- https://ghazni.bdus.cloud/islamic/finds/marble/panels-niche-design/record/RM0018
- TEI, no. 6208
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 - non serifed
- ṭā' ẓā' ascenders
- rounded body
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - short curvilinear tail
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- short bowl
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- rounded base denticles with first denticle extended
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- medial short pointed denticles
- initial slightly inclined to left
counters
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- rounded head, pointed chin
- mīm counters
- soft triangular head
Other
- additional characteristics
- the final ba’ at the end of the inscription lays on a vertical baseline
- one small vegetal ornament (leaf) used to balance the negative space