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Tombstone, Ghazni, 1541, Thuluth regional variant
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APA
Martina Massullo, . (n.d.). Tombstone, Ghazni, 1541, Thuluth regional variant (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3822
Chicago
Martina Massullo. n.d. “Tombstone, Ghazni, 1541, Thuluth regional variant.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3822
MLA
Martina Massullo. Tombstone, Ghazni, 1541, Thuluth Regional Variant, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3822
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Afghanistan_MM_02
- Author
- Martina Massullo
- Date
- 948 H. sha'ban
- 1541 – 1542
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Afghanistan, Ghazni
- Present Location
- Ghazni, warehouse
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Funerary text
- Text Content
- غفرانا من ﺍﻟﻟﻪ للشاب السعيد بابار كلان بن حسن الغزنوي غفرﺍﻟﻟﻪله وكا(ن) وفاته في يوم السبت الثاني من شهر شعبان لسنة ثمان وأربعين وتسعماية
- Script
- Thuluth regional variant
- Color of the Script
- no trace of color left
- Remarks (General Identification)
- the inscription contains the name of the deceased and the date of death.
- Type of Object
- cenotaph/tombstone
- Writing Surface
- stone\type of stone\marble
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- band
- Size (of the object)
- unknown
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- An horizontal line of writing inside a rectangular band on each of the two longitudinal faces. Some words are broken on two levels.
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
- Instrument
- chisel
- Bibliography
- Massullo Martina, Les tombeaux et les épitaphes de Ghazni (Afghanistan) entre le XVe et le XVIIIe siècle, PhD thesis, Aix-Marseille Université and Università degli studi di Napoli "L'Orientale", 3 vols (unpublished), 2017, Cat. no. 12, pp. 276-277, pl. LVIII.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- rectangular
- Character Spacing
- regular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- rare
- Elongated Letters
- after medial ḥāʾ
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
Ascenders
Descenders
- rā' zā' descenders
- short curvilinear convex stroke
- rā'/zā' - long flattened, tapered tail
- rā'/zā' - flattened, tapered tail
- mīm descenders
- mīm - long flattened, tapered tail
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā', lām, qāf - crescent tail
- nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā', lām, qāf - plunging bowl
- wide deep bowl
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- short bowl
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - elongated curvilinear flattened bowl
denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial slightly inclined to left
- leftward stroke with short hook
- medial short pointed denticles
counters
- hā' counters
- initial / medial double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah)
- final s-shaped (muḥdawdibah)
- final one-eyed (mardufah) with elongated vertical shaft / sometimes with serif
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle
- mīm counters
- rounded head pointed chin
vocalization and diacritics
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- short denticles
- ihmāl vocalization and diacritics
- subscript miniature letter for hā’/ ʿayn/ sīn / sād / ṭa
Other
- additional characteristics
- Element in the form of a knot use to balance the negative space between characters
- Rare vegetal elements used to balance the negative space between characters