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Portal, Didymoteicho, 1420-1421, Thuluth
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Vincent Thérouin, . (n.d.). Portal, Didymoteicho, 1420-1421, Thuluth (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4161
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Vincent Thérouin. n.d. “Portal, Didymoteicho, 1420-1421, Thuluth.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4161
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Vincent Thérouin. Portal, Didymoteicho, 1420-1421, Thuluth, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4161
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Balkans_VT_04
- Author
- Vincent Thérouin
- Date
- 823 H.
- 1420 – 1421
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Greece, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Didymoteicho
- Present Location
- mosque of Çelebi Sultan Mehmed, Didymoteicho
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Foundation inscription
- Text Content
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(١) أمر بعمارة هذا المسجد المبارك و المعبد المكرم <١>السلطان الأعظم و الخاقان المعظم المؤيد من السماء بالدولة الباهرة المظفر على
(٢) على الأعداء بالسلطنة القاهرة ظل اللّه فى الأرض غياث الدولة و الدنيا و الدين معز <٢> الإسلام و الملة السلطان إبن السلطان أبو
(٣) الفتح محمد إبن بايزيد مراد إبن اورخان إبن عثمان قرن اللّه فى الدنيا بالقبول أعماله فى النيل الأجر با (؟) عناية مختم (؟) الإحسان و امداد الحرم فى الشهر ربيع الأولى سنة ثلث عشرين ثمانماية - Script
- Thuluth
- Type of Object
- architectural element\portal
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- rectangular
- Size (of the object)
- 80 x 185 cm
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
- Bibliography
- Ameen, Ahmed M. “The Meaning of the Arabic Dedicatory Inscriptions of the Ottoman Monuments of Greece.” Journal of the Faculty of Archaeology, Cairo University, 2012, p. 7.
- Ayverdi, Ekrem Hakkı. Avrupa’da Osmanlı Mimârî Eserleri: Bulgaristan, Yunanistan, Arnavudluk. Vol. 4, books 4–6, Istanbul, 1982, p. 193.
- Ayverdi, Ekrem Hakkı. “Dimetoka’da Çelebi Sultan Mehmed Cami’i.” Vakıflar Dergisi, vol. 3, 1956, pp. 14–15.
- Bıçakçı, İsmail. Yunanistan’da Türk Mimarî Eserleri. Istanbul, 2003, p. 58.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- rectangular
- 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
- final vertical shaft with top arm (sarkaj)
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
- nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā', lām, qāf - curvilinear flattened bowl
- jīm ḥāʾ khā' and ‘ain ghayn descenders
- semicircular backward tail
- yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders
- backward horizontal stroke
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - elongated curvilinear flattened bowl
denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- medial short pointed denticles
- initial perpendicular to baseline
- initial top right serif
counters
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- rounded head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle