South Asia – Items
Lintel, Puthanathani, Other
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Cite
APA
Mohammed Salih Cholakkalakath, . (n.d.). Lintel, Puthanathani, Other (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3895
Chicago
Mohammed Salih Cholakkalakath. n.d. “Lintel, Puthanathani, Other.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3895
MLA
Mohammed Salih Cholakkalakath. Lintel, Puthanathani, Other, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3895
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- India_MSC_15
- Date
- 1501 – 1800
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- India, Kerala state, Puthanathani Mosque
- Present Location
- Puthanathani Mosque, Kerala
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Poetry
- Nature of the Text
- Reference for poetry verses
- Text Content
- لي خمسة اطفي بها حر الوباء الحاط والمصطفي والمرتضي وابناهما فاطمة
- Color of the Script
- white
- Type of Object
- architectural element\lintel
- Writing Surface
- wood
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- band
- Size (of the object)
- n/a
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- 2
- Instrument
- chisel
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- rectangular
- Internal Structure
- partially interwoven
- linear
- certain letters written in reverse
- large presence of negative space
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- partial stacking of characters
- Character Spacing
- irregular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- occasional
- Length of Elongation
- varied length of elongations
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- inclined square
Ascenders
- Alif Ascenders
- alif - thin shaft
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wide rounded tail
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - s-shaped
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- elongated curvilinear deep bowl
- deep bowl ending in ascending hairline
- deep bowl looping inwards
- Short bowl on baseline
- yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders
- backward oblique stroke
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- short bowl
denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial slightly inclined to left
- medial short pointed denticles
counters
- hā' counters
- isolated one-eyed triangular (murabba'ah)
- final multi-knotted form (musalsalah)
- initial / medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr) with extended arm
- medial swollen double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah)
- final s-shaped (muḥdawdibah)
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- triangular pointed head
vocalization and diacritics
- hamza vocalization and diacritics
- small inverse Z
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- short denticles