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Panel, Chanderi, 1487-1488, Epigraphic Round Script

India_SS_36a

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Copyrights Holder: CallFront
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Entry ID: India_SS_36
Author: Saarthak Singh
Date: 893 H.; 1487 – 1488
Localization Exactitude Degree: Exact
Place of Production: India, Madhya Pradesh, Ashoknagar district, Chanderi
Present Location: Battīsī Bāolī
Language: Persian
Type of text: Foundation inscription
Text Content: Records the completion of a step well and mosque by Ṭāghī b. Fakhr, minister of Ghiyāth 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): 76 x 76 cm
Layout (Epigraphy & Objects): 19
Technique: carved / bas-relief - flat relief
Instrument: chisel

Script descriptor

See the lexicon

General Script Characteristics

Shape: rectangular
Internal Structure: linear; interwoven
Line of Writing: plunging and ascending
Groups of Characters Baseline: horizontal
Character Spacing: irregular spaces between characters; superscription at end of line
Presence of Elongation: frequent
Elongated Letters: kāf bowl; lām bowl; nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā’, lām and qāf bowl; final bā’/ṭā' /fā’ bowl; sīn/shin denticles
Ligature: Abusive - ‘alif and lām; Abusive - dāl and yā’
Shading / Contrast: strong contrast

Letter Morphology

Point: inclined square

Ascenders

Alif Ascenders: alif - vertical; alif - top right serif; alif - shaft tapers from thick to thin
Lām Ascenders: lām - vertical; lām - top right serif; lām - shaft tapers from thick to thin
Kāf Ascenders: no top arm and superscript kāf; initial medial and final elongated (mabsūṭah) with s-shape body; medial, initial vertical shaft; stylized top arm; top arm with final hook
ṭā' ẓā' ascenders: rounded body; vertical shaft no serif

Descenders

wāw descenders: wāw - long flattened, tapered tail
rā' zā' descenders: rā'/zā' - long flattened, tapered tail
mīm descenders: mīm - long flattened, tapered tail; mīm - vertical downstroke
nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders: wide deep bowl
jīm ḥāʾ khā' and ‘ain ghayn descenders: semicircular backward tail; closing upward

horizontals

bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals: short straight bowl on baseline; bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - elongated curvilinear flattened bowl

denticles

sīn shīn denticles: rounded base 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 one-eyed (mardufah) with elongated vertical shaft
fā' qāf wāw counters: rounded head
medial 'ain ghayn counters: wide inverted triangle
mīm counters: rounded head

vocalization and diacritics

fatḥa kasra vocalization and diacritics: oblique stroke (10°-35°)
ḍamma vocalization and diacritics: oblique tail (10°-35°)
hamza vocalization and diacritics: small ‘ain
sukūn vocalization and diacritics: circle
shadda vocalization and diacritics: tall denticles

Other

additional characteristics: shin indicated by inverted comma

Image ID Entry: India_SS_36a
Description: Panel, Chanderi, 1487-1488, Epigraphic Round Script
Photographer: Saarthak Singh
Copyrights Holder: Saarthak Singh
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Access Rights: Public