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Arch, Casa del Conde Toledo, 15th century, Epigraphic Round Script
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APA
Julie Marquer, . (n.d.). Arch, Casa del Conde Toledo, 15th century, Epigraphic Round Script. In . Julie Marquer, Lintel, Casa del Conde, Toledo, 15th century, hybrid (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3851
Chicago
Julie Marquer. n.d. “Arch, Casa del Conde Toledo, 15th century, Epigraphic Round Script”. Lintel, Casa del Conde, Toledo, 15th century, hybrid, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3851
MLA
Julie Marquer. “Arch, Casa Del Conde Toledo, 15th Century, Epigraphic Round Script”. Lintel, Casa Del Conde, Toledo, 15th Century, Hybrid, by Julie Marquer, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3851
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Spain_JM_02
- Author
- Julie Marquer
- Contributor(s)
- Nuria Garcia Masip
- Date
- 15th century
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Spain, Toledo, Casa del Conde Esteban
- Remarks (Place of Production)
- Inscription from a building known as Casa del Conde Esteban
- Present Location
- Plaza del Consistorio, 3, Toledo
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Devotional text
- Nature of the Text
- Other
- Text Content
- Jesus son of holy Mary
- Script
- Epigraphic Round Script
- Type of Object
- architectural element\arch
- Writing Surface
- stone\type of stone\stucco
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- band
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- a writing line along the alfiz
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
- Bibliography
- Amador de los Ríos, Rodrigo. “La Casa Del Conde Esteban de Toledo.” Boletín de La Sociedad Española de Excursiones 35 (1896): 205–12.
- Marquer, Julie. “Jesús y María Entre El Islam y El Cristianismo En Las Inscripciones Árabes de La Casa Del Conde de Toledo.” Al-Qanṭara 43, no. 1 (2022).
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Lintel, Casa del Conde, Toledo, 15th century, hybrid
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- rectangular
- Character Spacing
- regular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- rare
- Elongated Letters
- medial ligatures
- Shading / Contrast
- non-nuanced strokes
Letter Morphology
- Point
- round dot
Ascenders
- Alif Ascenders
- alif - non serifed
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - short curvilinear tail
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - s-shaped
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- wide deep bowl
- nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā', lām, qāf - plunging bowl
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - short curvilinear flattened bowl
denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- leftward stroke
counters
- mīm counters
- circular head