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Tombstone, Thatta, late 15th century, Biḥārī ; Thuluth
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APA
Fatima Quraishi, . (n.d.). Tombstone, Thatta, late 15th century, Biḥārī ; Thuluth (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3888
Chicago
Fatima Quraishi. n.d. “Tombstone, Thatta, late 15th century, Biḥārī ; Thuluth.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3888
MLA
Fatima Quraishi. Tombstone, Thatta, Late 15th Century, Biḥārī ; Thuluth, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3888
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Pakistan_FQ_13
- Author
- Fatima Quraishi
- Date
- 1476 – 1500
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Pakistan, Sindh province, Thatta, Makli Necropolis, Tomb of the sister of Fath Khan
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Quran
- Nature of the Text
- Reference for Quranic verses
- Text Content
- 39:53
- Type of Object
- cenotaph/tombstone
- 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
- Character Spacing
- regular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- frequent
- Elongated Letters
- yā’ rajiah
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Ascenders
- Alif Ascenders
- alif - slight top serif
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - rounded tail
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - s-shaped
- mīm descenders
- mīm - s-shape
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā', lām, qāf - curvilinear flattened 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
- leftward stroke with short hook
counters
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- rounded head needle point eye
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle
vocalization and diacritics
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- tall denticles
Other
- additional characteristics
- Body of letters quite small in proportion to the flat tails and shafts
- lām-alif