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Iwan, Thatta, c. 1558, Thuluth
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Fatima Quraishi, . (n.d.). Iwan, Thatta, c. 1558, Thuluth (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3885
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Fatima Quraishi. n.d. “Iwan, Thatta, c. 1558, Thuluth.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3885
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Fatima Quraishi. Iwan, Thatta, C. 1558, Thuluth, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3885
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Pakistan_FQ_10
- Author
- Fatima Quraishi
- Date
- 1558
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Pakistan, Sindh province, Thatta, Makli Necropolis, Tomb of Sultan Ibrahim
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Quran
- Nature of the Text
- Reference for Quranic verses
- Text Content
- 39:73-74
- Script
- Thuluth
- Signature
- Ahmad Ansari
- Signature Role
- calligrapher
- Type of Object
- architectural element\iwan
- Writing Surface
- ceramic
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- rectangular
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- 2
- Technique
- painted
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- rectangular
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- Groups of characters baseline - horizontal
- Character Spacing
- regular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- rare
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
Ascenders
- Kāf Ascenders
- initial medial and final elongated (mabsūṭah)
Descenders
- 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
- 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
- initial top right serif
- medial short pointed denticles
counters
- hā' counters
- isolated one-eyed triangular (murabba'ah)
- initial / medial double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah)
- initial / medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr)
- final one-eyed (mardufah) triangular with elongated vertical shaft
- final s-shaped (muḥdawdibah)
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- rounded head needle point eye
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle
vocalization and diacritics
- fatḥa kasra vocalization and diacritics
-
oblique stroke
(10°-35°) - hamza vocalization and diacritics
- small ‘ain
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- wedge
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- tall denticles
- ihmāl vocalization and diacritics
- subscript miniature letter for hā’/ ʿayn/ sīn / sād / ṭa
- superscript miniature kāf for medial or inital form
- ihmāl - v-shaped