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Lintel, Thatta, 1513-1514, Thuluth
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APA
Fatima Quraishi, . (n.d.). Lintel, Thatta, 1513-1514, Thuluth (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3883
Chicago
Fatima Quraishi. n.d. “Lintel, Thatta, 1513-1514, Thuluth.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3883
MLA
Fatima Quraishi. Lintel, Thatta, 1513-1514, Thuluth, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3883
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Pakistan_FQ_08
- Author
- Fatima Quraishi
- Date
- 919 H.
- 1513 – 1514
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Pakistan, Sindh province, Thatta, Makli Necropolis, Tomb of Kaus as-Sultani
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Quran
- Nature of the Text
- Reference for Quranic verses
- Text Content
- 39:73
- Script
- Thuluth
- Type of Object
- architectural element\lintel
- Writing Surface
- stone\type of stone\sandstone
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- rectangular
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- 2
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
- Instrument
- chisel
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
- Presence of Elongation
- rare
- Elongated Letters
- yā’ rajiah
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- round dot
Ascenders
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - long flattened, tapered tail
- 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
- yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders
- backward horizontal stroke
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - curvilinear flattened 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
- initial / medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr)
- initial / medial double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah)
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- rounded head
- mīm counters
- rounded head pointed chin
vocalization and diacritics
- fatḥa kasra vocalization and diacritics
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oblique stroke
(10°-35°) - sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- wedge
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- tall denticles
- ihmāl vocalization and diacritics
- superscript miniature kāf for medial or inital form
- ihmāl - v-shaped