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Panel, Batiyagarh, 1325, Epigraphic Round Script
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APA
Saarthak Singh, . (n.d.). Panel, Batiyagarh, 1325, Epigraphic Round Script (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4109
Chicago
Saarthak Singh. n.d. “Panel, Batiyagarh, 1325, Epigraphic Round Script.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4109
MLA
Saarthak Singh. Panel, Batiyagarh, 1325, Epigraphic Round Script, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4109
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- India_SS_05
- Author
- Saarthak Singh
- Date
- 725 H.
- 1325
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- India, Madhya Pradesh, Damoh district, Batiyagarh
- Remarks (Place of Production)
- Originally on a step well called Sas-Bahu ki Baoli at Batiyagarh
- Present Location
- Nagpur Central Museum
- Language
- Persian
- Type of text
- Foundation inscription
- Nature of the Text
- Other
- Text Content
- Records the construction of a step-well in the reign of Sultan Ghiyāth al-Dīn Tughluq, governorship of Amīr al-Umarā Juljīn and deputyship of Jalāl al-Dīn Ahsān Husainī by Jalāl b. Ishāq b. Uthmān Ghaznavī.
- Script
- Epigraphic Round Script
- Type of Object
- architectural element\panel
- Writing Surface
- stone\type of stone\sandstone
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- rectangular
- Size (of the object)
- 122 x 61 cm
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- 7
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
- Instrument
- chisel
- Bibliography
- Verma, B. D. “Inscriptions from the Central Museum, Nagpur.” In Epigraphia Indica : Arabic and Persian Supplement (EIAPS). 1955. 109-112, pl. 28a.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- rectangular
- Internal Structure
- linear
- Line of Writing
- horizontal
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- oblique
- Character Spacing
- irregular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- rare
- Length of Elongation
- varied length of elongations
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- non-nuanced strokes
Letter Morphology
- Point
- round dot
Ascenders
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - short curvilinear tail
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - short curvilinear tail
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā', lām, qāf - crescent tail
- jīm ḥāʾ khā' and ‘ain ghayn descenders
- semicircular backward tail
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - short curvilinear flattened bowl
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - elongated curvilinear flattened bowl
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- short pointed denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial perpendicular to baseline
counters
- hā' counters
- initial / medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr)
- medial circle with horizontal line
- final one-eyed (mardufah) diamond shaped
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- triangular pointed head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- compact inverted triangle
- mīm counters
- soft triangular head tilted left