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Mihrab, Kadawaha, c. 1312, Epigraphic Round Script
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APA
Saarthak Singh, . (n.d.). Mihrab, Kadawaha, c. 1312, Epigraphic Round Script (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4106
Chicago
Saarthak Singh. n.d. “Mihrab, Kadawaha, c. 1312, Epigraphic Round Script.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4106
MLA
Saarthak Singh. Mihrab, Kadawaha, C. 1312, Epigraphic Round Script, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4106
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- India_SS_02
- Author
- Saarthak Singh
- Date
- c.711 H.
- 1312
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- India, Madhya Pradesh, Ashoknagar district, Isagarh tehsil, Kadwaha village
- Present Location
- Monastery complex, Kadwaha
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Quran
- Nature of the Text
- Reference for Quranic verses
- Text Content
- Quran 3:18-19. Hadith 4/1209, no. 569
- Script
- Epigraphic Round Script
- Type of Object
- architectural element\mihrab
- Writing Surface
- stone\type of stone\sandstone
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- band
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- 1
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
- Instrument
- chisel
- Bibliography
- Sears, Tamara I. “Fortified Mahas and Fortress Mosques: The Transformation and Reuse of Hindu Monastic Sites in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries.” Archives of Asian Art 59 (2009): 7–31.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- rectangular
- Line of Writing
- horizontal
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- oblique
- Character Spacing
- regular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- absent
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- inclined square
Ascenders
- Kāf Ascenders
- medial and final elongated (mabsūṭah)
Descenders
- mīm descenders
- mīm - short curvilinear tail
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- wide bowl
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- rounded base 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
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- short denticles
Other
- additional characteristics
- Allāh with final diamond shape hā’
- Irregular spacing and proportions