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Box and cover, China, 15th century, Other
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APA
Nourane Ben Azzouna, . (n.d.). Box and cover, China, 15th century, Other (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3999
Chicago
Nourane Ben Azzouna. n.d. “Box and cover, China, 15th century, Other.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3999
MLA
Nourane Ben Azzouna. Box and Cover, China, 15th Century, Other, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3999
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- China_NBA_06
- Author
- Nourane Ben Azzouna
- Date
- 15th century
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Approximate
- Place of Production
- China
- Present Location
- Musée des Chinois d'outre-mer, Xiamen
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Devotional text
- Text Content
- الحمد للّه
- Type of Object
- object\ritual implement
- Writing Surface
- metal
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- circular
- Size (of the object)
- 11.5 cm diam. ; 6.4 cm height
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- 1 line
- Technique
- cast
- Instrument
- other
- Bibliography
- Chen, Dasheng, and Kalus, Ludvik. Corpus d’inscriptions arabes et persanes en Chine. P. Geuthner, 1991. p. 289, n° 197.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- circular
- Line of Writing
- Line of writing - horizontal
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- Groups of characters baseline - horizontal
- Character Spacing
- regular spaces between characters
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Ascenders
counters
- hā' counters
- final loop with upstroke hairline
- mīm counters
- circular head