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Panel, Mandu, 1414, Epigraphic Round Script
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Saarthak Singh, . (n.d.). Panel, Mandu, 1414, Epigraphic Round Script (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4124
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Saarthak Singh. n.d. “Panel, Mandu, 1414, Epigraphic Round Script.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4124
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Saarthak Singh. Panel, Mandu, 1414, Epigraphic Round Script, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4124
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- India_SS_20
- Author
- Saarthak Singh
- Date
- 817 H.
- 1414
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- India, Madhya Pradesh, Dhar district, Mandu
- Remarks (Place of Production)
- Originally belonged to a mosque
- Present Location
- Taveli Mahal museum, Mandu
- Language
- Persian
- Type of text
- Foundation inscription
- Text Content
- Records the foundation of a mosque by Fażlullāh b. Mubārak b. Farīd Kafūrī under ’Āzam Humāyūn Alp Khān (=Hūshang Shāh)
- Script
- Epigraphic Round Script
- Type of Object
- architectural element\panel
- Writing Surface
- stone\type of stone\granite
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- rectangular
- Size (of the object)
- 37 x 57 cm
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- 8
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
- Instrument
- chisel
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- rectangular
- Internal Structure
- linear
- Line of Writing
- plunging and ascending
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- oblique
- Presence of Elongation
- frequent
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- inclined square
Ascenders
- Alif Ascenders
- alif - inclined to left
- alif - top right serif
- alif - shaft tapers from thick to thin
- alif - foot with left hook
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - short curvilinear tail
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - s-shaped
- mīm descenders
- mīm - s-shape
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā', lām, qāf - deep plunging bowl
- jīm ḥāʾ khā' and ‘ain ghayn descenders
- closing upward
- yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders
- backward oblique stroke
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - deep plunging bowl
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- short pointed denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial perpendicular to baseline
counters
- hā' counters
- isolated one-eyed round (mu'arrāh)
- initial / medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr)
- final s-shaped (muḥdawdibah)
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- rounded head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- compact inverted triangle / open or closed eye
- mīm counters
- circular head closed eye
Other
- additional characteristics
- Plunging bowls, hooked tails, hooked arms
- Dāl with tall vertical shaft