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Tombstone, Ghazni, 1579-1580, Thuluth regional variant
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APA
Martina Massullo, . (n.d.). Tombstone, Ghazni, 1579-1580, Thuluth regional variant (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3827
Chicago
Martina Massullo. n.d. “Tombstone, Ghazni, 1579-1580, Thuluth regional variant.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3827
MLA
Martina Massullo. Tombstone, Ghazni, 1579-1580, Thuluth Regional Variant, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3827
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Afghanistan_MM_07
- Author
- Martina Massullo
- Date
- 987 H. muharram
- 1579 – 1580
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Afghanistan, Ghazni
- Present Location
- unknown
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Funerary text
- Text Content
- ابن المغفور المرحوم المبرور خواجة ممة (؟) الغزنوي في تاريخ يوم الجمعة ﺇحدى من شهر محرم لسنة سبعة وثمانين وتسعماية ٩٨٧ بشيء من علمه ﺇلا بما شاء وسع كرسيه السموات واﻷرض ولا يؤده حفظهما وهو العلي العظيم
- Script
- Thuluth regional variant
- Color of the Script
- no trace of color left
- Remarks (General Identification)
- the inscription on the upper element contains the nasab of the deceased and the date of death. The inscription on the lower element contains a Quranic quotation(2:255).
- Type of Object
- cenotaph/tombstone
- Writing Surface
- stone\type of stone\marble
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- band
- Size (of the object)
- unknown
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- A rectangular epigraphic band on the east face of the base and the topmost element. Inside each band, words are sistematically broken on 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)
- The tomb is composed of a monolithic prismatic base and a upper molded element. 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et le XVIIIe siècle, PhD thesis, Aix-Marseille Université and Università degli studi di Napoli "L'Orientale", 3 vols (unpublished), 2017, Cat.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. 57, pp. 399-400, pl. CIII.
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
- 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
- sīn shīn denticles
- rounded base denticles
- tall denticles perpendicular to baseline
- elongated no denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial perpendicular to baseline
- leftward stroke with short hook
counters
- hā' counters
- isolated one-eyed triangular (murabba'ah)
- initial / medial double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah)
- initial / medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr)
- final s-shaped (muḥdawdibah)
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle
- mīm counters
- rounded head pointed chin
vocalization and diacritics
- ihmāl vocalization and diacritics
- subscript miniature letter for hā’/ ʿayn/ sīn / sād / ṭa
- superscript hamzah (nabrah) for medial/final kāf
Other
- additional characteristics
- Large lām-alif large opening symmetrically