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Tombstone, Ghazni, 1577, Thuluth regional variant
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APA
Martina Massullo, . (n.d.). Tombstone, Ghazni, 1577, Thuluth regional variant (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3826
Chicago
Martina Massullo. n.d. “Tombstone, Ghazni, 1577, Thuluth regional variant.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3826
MLA
Martina Massullo. Tombstone, Ghazni, 1577, Thuluth Regional Variant, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3826
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Afghanistan_MM_06
- Author
- Martina Massullo
- Date
- 985 H. rabi' al-awwal
- 1577 – 1578
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Afghanistan, Ghazni
- Present Location
- Rome, Museo delle Civilità (MUCIV)
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Funerary text
- Text Content
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كان وفات الشاب الصالحا المسطورة ﺃغة شكر بنت الصالح خواجة حكيم الغزنوي في تاريخ يوم الثلاثة عشرين شهر ربيع اﻷولى السنة
خمسة وثمانين 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 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 rectangular epigraphic band on each of the two longitudinal faces. Words are sistematically broken across several superposed levels so as to fill the entire epigraphic surface. In each epigraphic band, the text should be read from right to left and from the bottom to the upper line.
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
- Instrument
- chisel
- Remarks (Support)
- An uninscribed arched panel divides the epigraphic band of the east face in two parts.
- 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et le XVIIIe siècle, PhD thesis, Aix-Marseille Université and Università degli studi di Napoli "L'Orientale", 3 vols (unpublished), 2017, Cat.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. 96, pp. 479-480, pl. CXX.
- Massullo, Martina. “Marble Tombs from Ghazni (Fifteenth - Eighteenth Centuries): Morphological and Epigraphic Remarks.” Eurasian Studies 13, nos. 1–2 (2015): 54–67. pl. XIV.1.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- rectangular
- Character Spacing
- regular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- occasional
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- inclined square
Ascenders
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - short curvilinear 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
- deep bowl
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - curvilinear flattened bowl
denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial slightly inclined to left
- leftward stroke with short hook
counters
- hā' counters
- isolated one-eyed triangular (murabba'ah)
- initial / medial double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah)
- final s-shaped (muḥdawdibah)
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle