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Tombstone, Ghazni, 1566, Thuluth regional variant
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APA
Martina Massullo, . (n.d.). Tombstone, Ghazni, 1566, Thuluth regional variant (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3823
Chicago
Martina Massullo. n.d. “Tombstone, Ghazni, 1566, Thuluth regional variant.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3823
MLA
Martina Massullo. Tombstone, Ghazni, 1566, Thuluth Regional Variant, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3823
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Afghanistan_MM_03
- Author
- Martina Massullo
- Date
- 973 H. dhu al-hijja
- 1566
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Afghanistan, Ghazni
- Present Location
- unknown
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Funerary text
- Text Content
- ھذا قبر الشيخ المحترم المكرم الصالح العابد العارف عبد الكريم بن عبد الرحيم الغزنوي في تاريخ يوم الجمعة غرة شهر ذي الحخة لسنة ثلاث وسبعين وتسعماية في هجرة النبي
- 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)
- other
- Size (of the object)
- unknown
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- A horizontal line of inscription runs within a rectangular band along each of the two longitudinal faces, with some words split across two levels. On the central arched panel of the east face, the text is arranged in five horizontal lines. The inscription begins on the rectangular band of the east face, continues along the rectangular band of the west face, and concludes on the east face within the frontal arched panel.
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
- Instrument
- chisel
- Remarks (Support)
- A second inscription in Persian language runs in the frame of the main epigraphic band of the west face, this text is not taken into account in our analysis.
- Bibliography
- Massullo Martina, "Marble Tombs from Ghazni (Fifteenth - Eighteenth Centuries): Morphological and Epigraphic Remarks", Eurasian Studies, 13/1-2: 54-67, 2015, pl. XIV.2; M. Massullo, 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. 15, pp. 282-284, pl. LXIII
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- rectangular
- Character Spacing
- regular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- absent
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
Ascenders
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - rounded tail
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- wide deep bowl
- nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā', lām, qāf - crescent 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
- initial top right serif
counters
- hā' counters
- initial / medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr)
- initial / medial double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah)
- final s-shaped (muḥdawdibah)
- isolated one-eyed triangular (murabba'ah)
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- rounded head needle point eye
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle
- mīm counters
- rounded head
vocalization and diacritics
- hamza vocalization and diacritics
- small ‘ain
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- tall denticles
- ihmāl vocalization and diacritics
- subscript miniature letter for hā’/ ʿayn/ sīn / sād / ṭa
Other
- additional characteristics
- Rare vegetal elements used to balance the negative space between characters