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Mihrab, Hangzhou, c.14th century ?, Sīnī
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APA
Shunhua Jin, . (n.d.). Mihrab, Hangzhou, c.14th century ?, Sīnī (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3872
Chicago
Shunhua Jin. n.d. “Mihrab, Hangzhou, c.14th century ?, Sīnī.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3872
MLA
Shunhua Jin. Mihrab, Hangzhou, c.14th Century ?, Sīnī, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3872
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- China_SJ_17
- Author
- Shunhua Jin
- Contributor(s)
- Nuria Garcia Masip
- Date
- 14th century
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Approximate
- Place of Production
- China, Zhejiang province, Hangzhou
- Present Location
- Phoenix Mosque, Hangzhou, China
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Quran
- Script
- Sīnī
- Color of the Script
- gold
- Type of Object
- architectural element\mihrab
- Writing Surface
- wood
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- rectangular
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- Groups of characters baseline - horizontal
- Character Spacing
- irregular spaces between characters
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- strong contrast
Ascenders
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- circular ascending tail
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - s-shaped
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā', lām, qāf - elongated curvilinear flattened bowl
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- elongated no denticles
counters
- hā' counters
- final ribbon-like ascending
- mīm counters
- rounded head pointed chin
vocalization and diacritics
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- short denticles