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Wall, Alcazar of Seville, 14th century, Kufic
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APA
Julie Marquer, . (n.d.). Wall, Alcazar of Seville, 14th century, Kufic (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3853
Chicago
Julie Marquer. n.d. “Wall, Alcazar of Seville, 14th century, Kufic.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3853
MLA
Julie Marquer. Wall, Alcazar of Seville, 14th Century, Kufic, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3853
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Spain_JM_04
- Author
- Julie Marquer
- Contributor(s)
- Nuria Garcia Masip
- Date
- 1356 – 1366
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Spain, Seville, Alcazar of Seville
- Present Location
- Alcazar of Seville, Plaza del patio de Banderas, s/n, Casco Antiguo, 41004 Seville, patio de las Doncellas
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Titulature
- Text Content
- Glory to our lord the sultan Don Pedro
- Script
- Kūfī/Kufic
- Color of the Script
- white
- Type of Object
- architectural element\panel
- Writing Surface
- stone\type of stone\stucco
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- rectangular
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- a single writing line in the cartouche
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
- Remarks (Support)
- the same inscription can be found in various parts of the palace
- Bibliography
- Cano Ávila, Pedro. “Estudio Epigráfico-Histórico de Las Inscripciones Árabes de Los Portalones y Ventanas Del Patio de Las Doncellas Del Palacio de Pedro I En El Real Alcázar de Sevilla.” Apuntes Del Alcázar de Sevilla, no. 5 (2004): 52–79.
- Marquer, Julie. “Epigrafía y poder: el uso de las inscripciones árabes en el proyecto propagandístico de Pedro I de Castilla (1350-1369).” e-Spania. Revue interdisciplinaire d’études hispaniques médiévales et modernes, no. 13 (2012).
- Marquer, Julie. “El Poder Escrito: Problemáticas y Significación de Las Inscripciones Árabes de Los Palacios de Pedro I de Castilla (1350-1369).” Anales de Historia Del Arte 23, no. 0 (2013): 499–508.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- rectangular
- Presence of Elongation
- absent
- Ligature
- Conventional - straight
- Shading / Contrast
- non-nuanced strokes
Ascenders
- Alif Ascenders
- alif - elongated vertical shaft
- Lām Ascenders
- lām - elongated vertical shaft
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw -angular horizontal tail ending in split palmette
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - angular horizontal tail ending in split palmette
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- stylized cloud bowl
counters
- hā' counters
- final one-eyed (mardufah) triangular
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- gabled head