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Tombstone, Ghazni, 1567, Thuluth regional variant
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APA
Martina Massullo, . (n.d.). Tombstone, Ghazni, 1567, Thuluth regional variant (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3824
Chicago
Martina Massullo. n.d. “Tombstone, Ghazni, 1567, Thuluth regional variant.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3824
MLA
Martina Massullo. Tombstone, Ghazni, 1567, Thuluth Regional Variant, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3824
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Afghanistan_MM_04
- Author
- Martina Massullo
- Date
- 975 H.
- 1567
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Afghanistan, Ghazni
- Present Location
- Ghazni, warehouse
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Funerary text
- Text Content
- غفر انا من الله الأجل زبدة الصلحاء العارف السالك العابد الزاهد الكامل
- Script
- Thuluth regional variant
- Color of the Script
- no trace of color left
- Remarks (General Identification)
- the reading of the inscription is incomplete due to the lack of photographic documentation of the west face. Date of death is given by Rida 1967 (see Bibliography 2.3.12).
- Type of Object
- cenotaph/tombstone
- Writing Surface
- stone\type of stone\marble
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- other
- Size (of the object)
- unknown
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- An horizontal line of writing inside a rectangular band on each of the two longitudinal faces. Words are sistematically broken on two superposed levels.
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
- Instrument
- chisel
- Remarks (Support)
- In each epigraphic band, the text is to be red from right to left and from the bottom to the upper line. An uninscribed arched panel divides the epigraphic band of the east face in two parts. Photos of the west face are missing.
- 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et le XVIIIe siècle, PhD thesis, Aix-Marseille Université and Università degli studi di Napoli "L'Orientale", 3 vols (unpublished), 2017, Cat.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. 2, pp. 247-249, pl. XLIX
- Riḍā, Muḥammad. Riyāḍ al-alwāḥ. Muštamil bar katibahā-yi qubūr va abniya-yi Ġazna. Kabul, 1967. 144-145 (reading of the epitaph).
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
- Point
- inclined square
Ascenders
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - short curvilinear tail
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- deep bowl
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- rounded base denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial slightly inclined to left
counters
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- rounded head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle with thin right stroke
- mīm counters
- soft triangular head tilted left
vocalization and diacritics
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- tall denticles
- ihmāl vocalization and diacritics
- subscript miniature letter for hā’/ ʿayn/ sīn / sād / ṭa
Other
- additional characteristics
- Vegetal element used to balance the negative space between characters