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Box, China, 1644-1800, Other
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Cite
APA
Nourane Ben Azzouna, . (n.d.). Box, China, 1644-1800, Other (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4021
Chicago
Nourane Ben Azzouna. n.d. “Box, China, 1644-1800, Other.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4021
MLA
Nourane Ben Azzouna. Box, China, 1644-1800, Other, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4021
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- China_NBA_28
- Author
- Nourane Ben Azzouna
- Date
- 1644 – 1800
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Approximate
- Place of Production
- China
- Present Location
- British Museum (1894,0108.26)
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Devotional text
- Type of Object
- object\tool
- Writing Surface
- metal
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- circular
- Size (of the object)
- 19 cm diam.; 7 cm height
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- 1 line
- Technique
- cast
- Instrument
- other
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- circular
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- partial stacking of characters
- Presence of Elongation
- rare
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Ascenders
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- circular ascending tail
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - s-shaped
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā', lām, qāf - elongated curvilinear flattened bowl
denticles
counters
- hā' counters
- final s-shape with upstroke hairline
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- rounded head
- mīm counters
- soft triangular head tilted left
vocalization and diacritics
- fatḥa kasra vocalization and diacritics
- oblique stroke (10°-35°)