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Panel, Bihar-Kotra, 1440-1441, Epigraphic Round Script
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APA
Saarthak Singh, . (n.d.). Panel, Bihar-Kotra, 1440-1441, Epigraphic Round Script (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4130
Chicago
Saarthak Singh. n.d. “Panel, Bihar-Kotra, 1440-1441, Epigraphic Round Script.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4130
MLA
Saarthak Singh. Panel, Bihar-Kotra, 1440-1441, Epigraphic Round Script, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4130
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- India_SS_26
- Author
- Saarthak Singh
- Date
- 844 H.
- 1440 – 1441
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- India, Madhya Pradesh, Rajgarh district, Bihar-Kotra
- Present Location
- Jāmi‘ Masjid, slab lying inside the mihrab
- Language
- Persian
- Type of text
- Foundation inscription
- Text Content
- Records the foundation of a beautiful mosque by Wasīt Khān in the reign of Maḥmūd 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)
- 68.6 x 45.7cm
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- 5
- 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
- Character Spacing
- irregular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- occasional
- Elongated Letters
- nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā’, lām and qāf bowl
- Ligature
- Abusive - ‘alif and dāl
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- round dot
Ascenders
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wide rounded tail
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - short curvilinear tail
- mīm descenders
- mīm - s-shape
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- elongated curvilinear deep bowl
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- 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
- 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
- wide inverted triangle
- mīm counters
- rounded head
Other
- additional characteristics
- Undulating rhythm
- initial ‘ayn and ghayn with large curled eyebrow