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Panel, Thatta, late 15th- early 16th century, Thuluth
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APA
Fatima Quraishi, . (n.d.). Panel, Thatta, late 15th- early 16th century, Thuluth (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3879
Chicago
Fatima Quraishi. n.d. “Panel, Thatta, late 15th- early 16th century, Thuluth.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3879
MLA
Fatima Quraishi. Panel, Thatta, Late 15th- Early 16th Century, Thuluth, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3879
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Pakistan_FQ_04
- Author
- Fatima Quraishi
- Date
- 1476 – 1525
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Pakistan, Sindh province, Thatta, Makli Necropolis, Tomb of Malik Rajpal
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Foundation inscription
- Nature of the Text
- Other
- Script
- Thuluth
- Type of Object
- architectural element\panel
- Writing Surface
- stone\type of stone\sandstone
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- rectangular
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- 3
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
- Instrument
- chisel
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- rectangular
- Character Spacing
- regular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- absent
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- inclined square
Ascenders
- Alif Ascenders
- alif - top right serif
Descenders
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - long flattened, tapered tail
- mīm descenders
- mīm - s-shape
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- wide deep bowl
- jīm ḥāʾ khā' and ‘ain ghayn descenders
- closed looped tail
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- short bowl
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- rounded base denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial perpendicular to baseline
- medial short pointed denticles
counters
- hā' counters
- isolated one-eyed triangular (murabba'ah)
- initial / medial double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah)
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- soft triangular head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle
- mīm counters
- rounded head
vocalization and diacritics
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- tall denticles