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Beam, Thatta, late 14th- early 15th century, Naskhī regional variant
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APA
Fatima Quraishi, . (n.d.). Beam, Thatta, late 14th- early 15th century, Naskhī regional variant (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3892
Chicago
Fatima Quraishi. n.d. “Beam, Thatta, late 14th- early 15th century, Naskhī regional variant.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3892
MLA
Fatima Quraishi. Beam, Thatta, Late 14th- Early 15th Century, Naskhī Regional Variant, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3892
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Pakistan_FQ_17
- Author
- Fatima Quraishi
- Date
- 1376 – 1425
- Place of Production
- Pakistan, Sindh province, Thatta, Makli Necropolis, Khanqah of Hammad Jamali
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Quran
- Nature of the Text
- Reference for Quranic verses
- Text Content
- 62:1-11 (parts missing)
- Script
- Naskhī regional variant
- Type of Object
- architectural element\beam
- Writing Surface
- stone\type of stone\sandstone
- rectangular , multiple panels running as a frieze at the zone of transition
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- 2
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
- Instrument
- chisel
- Remarks (Support)
- The inscription has almost completely disappeared and can only be studied on the basis of photographic archives. The date is recorded in other inscription (in Kufic script) running on the inner arcades of the same monument.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- rectangular
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- oblique
- Character Spacing
- irregular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- occasional
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
Ascenders
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - long flattened, tapered tail
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - s-shaped
- yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders
- backward horizontal stroke
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - short curvilinear flattened bowl
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- short pointed 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 bottom v-shaped
- medial swollen double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah)
- final s-shaped (muḥdawdibah)
- final one-eyed (mardufah) with elongated vertical shaft / sometimes with serif
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- triangular pointed head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle
- mīm counters
- triangular head pointed chin
vocalization and diacritics
- fatḥa kasra vocalization and diacritics
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oblique stroke
(10°-35°) - sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- tall denticles touching upper vowel
- ihmāl vocalization and diacritics
- superscript miniature kāf for medial or inital form