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Portal, Stara Zagora, 1408-1409, Thuluth
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APA
Vincent Thérouin, . (n.d.). Portal, Stara Zagora, 1408-1409, Thuluth (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4159
Chicago
Vincent Thérouin. n.d. “Portal, Stara Zagora, 1408-1409, Thuluth.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4159
MLA
Vincent Thérouin. Portal, Stara Zagora, 1408-1409, Thuluth, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4159
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Balkans_VT_02
- Author
- Vincent Thérouin
- Date
- 811 H.
- 1408 – 1409
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Bulgaria, Stara Zagora Province, Stara Zagora
- Present Location
- mosque of Hamza Bey (today Muzey na religiite), Stara Zagora
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Foundation inscription
- Script
- Thuluth
- Type of Object
- architectural element\portal
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- rectangular
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
- Bibliography
- Keskioğlu, Osman. “Bulgaristan'da Bazı Türk Âbideleri ve Vakıf Eserleri.” Vakıflar Dergisi, vol. 8, 1969, p. 311.
- Kiel, Machiel. “The Oldest Monuments of the Ottoman-Turkish Architecture in the Balkans.” Sanat Tarihi Yıllığı, vol. 12, 1982, p. 120.
- Leube, Georg. “Ottoman Building Inscriptions II. A Hierarchy of Rule? 15th Century Ottoman Building Inscriptions in Bulgaria and Thrace.” DYNTRAN Working Papers, no. 5, octobre 2015, https://dyntran.hypotheses.org/763 (transliteration only).
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- rectangular
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- oblique
- Character Spacing
- irregular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- occasional
- Elongated Letters
- yā’ rajiah
- Length of Elongation
- varied length of elongations
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- inclined square
Ascenders
- Kāf Ascenders
- Initial /medial compact form diagonal body
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - rounded tail
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - s-shaped
- mīm descenders
- mīm - s-shape
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- wide deep bowl
- yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders
- backward horizontal stroke
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - curvilinear flattened bowl
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- rounded base denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- medial short pointed denticles
- initial perpendicular to baseline
counters
- hā' counters
- final one-eyed (mardufah) with elongated vertical shaft and backward stroke
- final s-shaped (muḥdawdibah)
- initial / medial double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah)
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- rounded head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle
- mīm counters
- soft triangular head tilted left