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Door, Shanghai, c.14th century ?, Sīnī
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Shunhua Jin, . (n.d.). Door, Shanghai, c.14th century ?, Sīnī (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3873
Chicago
Shunhua Jin. n.d. “Door, Shanghai, c.14th century ?, Sīnī.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3873
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Shunhua Jin. Door, Shanghai, c.14th Century ?, Sīnī, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3873
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- China_SJ_18
- Author
- Shunhua Jin
- Contributor(s)
- Nuria Garcia Masip
- Date
- 14th century
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Approximate
- Place of Production
- China, Shanghai
- Present Location
- Songjiang Mosque, Shanghai, China
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Quran
- 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
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- irregular undulations
- Character Spacing
- regular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- absent
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- inclined square
Ascenders
- Kāf Ascenders
- no top arm and superscript kāf
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - crescent tail
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā', lām, qāf - crescent bowl
- jīm ḥāʾ khā' and ‘ain ghayn descenders
- closed looped tail
- yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders
- backward oblique stroke
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - curvilinear flattened tail
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- rounded base denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial top right serif
counters
- hā' counters
- final s-shaped (muḥdawdibah)
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- soft triangular head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle
- mīm counters
- circular head
vocalization and diacritics
- fatḥa kasra vocalization and diacritics
-
diagonal stroke
(40°-45°) - ihmāl vocalization and diacritics
- superscript miniature kāf for medial or inital form