Sarcophagus, Chanderi, 1468-1500, Epigraphic Round Script

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License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Entry ID: India_SS_37
Author: Saarthak Singh
Date: 872-905 H.; 1468 – 1500
Localization Exactitude Degree: Exact
Place of Production: India, Madhya Pradesh, Ashoknagar district, Chanderi
Present Location: ASI Museum, Chanderi
Language: Arabic
Type of text: Funerary text
Text Content: Records the death of Malik ‘Alā’ al-Mulk b. Ahmad, great minister of Ghiyāth Shāh
Script: Epigraphic Round Script
Type of Object: cenotaph/tombstone
Writing Surface: stone\type of stone\granite
Shape (Epigraphy): band
Layout (Epigraphy & Objects): 1
Technique: carved / bas-relief - flat relief
Instrument: chisel

See the lexicon

wāw descenders: wide rounded tail; wāw - long flattened, tapered tail
rā' zā' descenders: rā'/zā' - s-shaped; rā'/zā' - long flattened, tapered tail
mīm descenders: mīm - s-shape; mīm - vertical downstroke
nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders: wide deep bowl
jīm ḥāʾ khā' and ‘ain ghayn descenders: backward tail
yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders: backward horizontal stroke

bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals: bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - elongated curvilinear flattened bowl

sīn shīn denticles: rounded base denticles
initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles: initial perpendicular to baseline

hā' counters: isolated one-eyed triangular (murabba'ah); initial / medial double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah); initial / medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr); final one-eyed (mardufah) triangular
fā' qāf wāw counters: triangular pointed head; rounded head
medial 'ain ghayn counters: wide inverted triangle
mīm counters: rounded head pointed chin, closed eye