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Tombstone, Thatta, late 15th century, Other
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APA
Fatima Quraishi, . (n.d.). Tombstone, Thatta, late 15th century, Other (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3891
Chicago
Fatima Quraishi. n.d. “Tombstone, Thatta, late 15th century, Other.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3891
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Fatima Quraishi. Tombstone, Thatta, Late 15th Century, Other, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3891
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Pakistan_FQ_16
- Author
- Fatima Quraishi
- Date
- 1476 – 1500
- Place of Production
- Pakistan, Sindh province, Thatta, Makli Necropolis, Funerary Enclosure of Darya Khan
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Other
- Nature of the Text
- Other
- Script
- Other
- Type of Object
- cenotaph/tombstone
- Writing Surface
- stone\type of stone\sandstone
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- other
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- 1
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
- Instrument
- chisel
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Character Spacing
- irregular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- absent
- Ligature
- Conventional - straight
- Shading / Contrast
- non-nuanced strokes
Letter Morphology
- Point
- round dot
Ascenders
- Alif Ascenders
- alif - top right serif
denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial perpendicular to baseline
counters
- hā' counters
- final one-eyed (mardufah) diamond shaped
vocalization and diacritics
- fatḥa kasra vocalization and diacritics
- horizontal stroke
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- wedge
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- short denticles
Other
- additional characteristics
- Allah with final diamond shape ha’