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Lintel, Cochin, 1519-1520, Other
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Cite
APA
Mohammed Salih Cholakkalakath, . (n.d.). Lintel, Cochin, 1519-1520, Other (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3893
Chicago
Mohammed Salih Cholakkalakath. n.d. “Lintel, Cochin, 1519-1520, Other.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3893
MLA
Mohammed Salih Cholakkalakath. Lintel, Cochin, 1519-1520, Other, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3893
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- India_MSC_12
- Date
- 926 H.
- 1519 – 1520
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- India, Kerala state, Cochin
- Present Location
- Shafi Jami Cochin (Chembittapalli)
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Foundation inscription
- Nature of the Text
- Reference for Quranic verses
- Reference for hadith texts (Wensinck's Concordance)
- Color of the Script
- white
- Type of Object
- architectural element\lintel
- Writing Surface
- wood
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- rectangular
- Size (of the object)
- n/a
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- 3
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
- Instrument
- chisel
- Bibliography
- Shokoohy, Mehrdad. Malabar in the Indian Ocean : Cosmopolitanism in a Maritime Historical Region. Mahmood Kooria and Michael N. Pearson. Oxford University Press, 2018.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- rectangular
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- oblique
- Character Spacing
- irregular spaces between characters
- no spacing between characters
- superscription at end of line
- Presence of Elongation
- absent
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- inclined square
Ascenders
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
- wide deep bowl
- yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders
- backward oblique stroke
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - curvilinear flattened bowl
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - plunging bowl
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- medial zig-zag denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- medial short pointed denticles
- initial slightly inclined to left
counters
- hā' counters
- isolated one-eyed triangular (murabba'ah)
- final s-shaped (muḥdawdibah)
- initial / medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr)
- initial / medial bottom v-shaped
- initial triangular
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- soft triangular head needle point eye
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle
vocalization and diacritics
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- short denticles
- ihmāl vocalization and diacritics
- subscript miniature letter for hā’/ ʿayn/ sīn / sād / ṭa
- superscript hamzah (nabrah) for medial/final kāf