Maghrib and Spain – Items
Panel, Fes, 14th century, Square Kufic
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Cite
APA
Umberto Bongianino, . (n.d.). Panel, Fes, 14th century, Square Kufic (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4069
Chicago
Umberto Bongianino. n.d. “Panel, Fes, 14th century, Square Kufic.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4069
MLA
Umberto Bongianino. Panel, Fes, 14th Century, Square Kufic, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4069
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Maghrib_UB_16
- Author
- Umberto Bongianino
- Date
- 1301/1400
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Morocco, Fes
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Devotional text
- Nature of the Text
- Du‘ā’
- Script
- Square Kufic
- Remarks (General Identification)
- Sharabliyyin Mosque
- Type of Object
- architectural element\panel
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- other
- Technique
- mosaic
- Bibliography
- ʿAwnī, Mūsā. Fann Al-Manqūshāt al-Kitābiyya Fī al-Maghrib al-Islāmī. Casablanca, 2010.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- rectangular
- Internal Structure
- tight interwoven
- Line of Writing
- horizontal
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- horizontal
- Character Spacing
- regular spaces between characters
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- square
Ascenders
- Alif Ascenders
- alif - vertical
- Lām Ascenders
- lām - vertical
- Kāf Ascenders
- no top arm and superscript kāf
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - angular horizontal tail
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - angular horizontal tail
- mīm descenders
- mīm - vertical downstroke
Other
- additional characteristics
- Dāl kāfiyya