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Portal, Beijing, c. 19th century, Sīnī
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APA
Shunhua Jin, . (n.d.). Portal, Beijing, c. 19th century, Sīnī (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3868
Chicago
Shunhua Jin. n.d. “Portal, Beijing, c. 19th century, Sīnī.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3868
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Shunhua Jin. Portal, Beijing, C. 19th Century, Sīnī, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3868
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- China_SJ_13
- Author
- Shunhua Jin
- Contributor(s)
- Nuria Garcia Masip
- Date
- 19th century
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- China, Beijing, probably in a mosque
- Present Location
- Dongsi Mosque, Beijing, China
- Language
- Arabic
- Script
- Sīnī
- Type of Object
- architectural element\portal
- Writing Surface
- brick
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- rectangular
- Character Spacing
- regular spaces between characters
- Ligature
- Abusive - ‘alif and lām
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Ascenders
- Alif Ascenders
- alif - curved
- Lām Ascenders
- lām - curved
Descenders
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - s-shaped
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- deep bowl looping inwards
counters
- hā' counters
- final s-shape with upstroke hairline
- mīm counters
- circular head