China – Items
Cauldron, China, undated, Other
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Cite
APA
Nourane Ben Azzouna, . (n.d.). Cauldron, China, undated, Other (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4014
Chicago
Nourane Ben Azzouna. n.d. “Cauldron, China, undated, Other.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4014
MLA
Nourane Ben Azzouna. Cauldron, China, Undated, Other, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4014
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- China_NBA_21
- Author
- Nourane Ben Azzouna
- Date
- Before mid-16th century
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Approximate
- Place of Production
- China
- Present Location
- Fuzhou Mosque
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Devotional text
- Text Content
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(١) بسم اللّه الرحمن الرحيم
(٢) يا أمين كالئة (كذا : كلائه ؟)
(٣) و إسا كلّ جايحة
(٤) و اللّه كلاء جايحة
(٥) قن كلّ و نبينلظة (؟)
(٦) اللّه ولىّ التوفيق
(٧) توكلّت على اللّه و اعتصمت باللّه
(٨) اللّه والى السلامة
(٩) اللّه يجمع بيننا - Type of Object
- object\tool
- Writing Surface
- metal
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- other
- Size (of the object)
- 65 cm diam.; 50 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. 268.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- other
- Internal Structure
- stacked
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- partial stacking of characters
- Character Spacing
- irregular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- absent
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- round dot
Ascenders
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - crescent tail
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - s-shaped
- mīm descenders
- mīm - short curvilinear tail
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- deep bowl
- jīm ḥāʾ khā' and ‘ain ghayn descenders
- opening horizontal
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - elongated curvilinear flattened ascending bowl
denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial perpendicular to baseline
counters
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- soft triangular head
- mīm counters
- circular head
vocalization and diacritics
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- tall denticles