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Door, Elbasan, 1465-1466, Thuluth
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APA
Vincent Thérouin, . (n.d.). Door, Elbasan, 1465-1466, Thuluth (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4164
Chicago
Vincent Thérouin. n.d. “Door, Elbasan, 1465-1466, Thuluth.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4164
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Vincent Thérouin. Door, Elbasan, 1465-1466, Thuluth, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4164
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Balkans_VT_07
- Author
- Vincent Thérouin
- Date
- 870 H.
- 1465 – 1466
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Albania, Elbasan County, Elbasan
- Present Location
- fortress, Elbasan
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Foundation inscription
- Text Content
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(١) عمر هلال القلعة المباركة فى أيّام سلطان برهان <١> المظفّر الزمان
(٢) باسط الأمن و الآمان سلطان إبن سلطان سلطان محمّد بن مراد بن محمّد
(٣) خان أبّد ملكه العبد المكرّم يوسف بن عبد اللّه فى سنة ٠٧٨ - Script
- Thuluth
- Type of Object
- architectural element\panel
- Writing Surface
- stone\type of stone\marble
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- rectangular
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
- Bibliography
- Ayverdi, Ekrem Hakkı. Avrupa’da Osmanlı Mimârî Eserleri: Bulgaristan, Yunanistan, Arnavudluk. Vol. 4, books 4–6, Istanbul, 1982, p. 400, no. 686.
- Babinger, Franz. “Die Gründung von Elbasan.” Mitteilungen des Seminars für Orientalische Sprachen zu Berlin, vol. 34, 1931, p. 6.
- Babinger, Franz. Rumelische Streifen. Berlin, 1938, p. 58.
- Tütüncü, Mehmet. Corpus of Ottoman Inscriptions from Albania and Montenegro. Haarlem, 2017, p. 38.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- rectangular
- Line of Writing
- horizontal
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- oblique
- Presence of Elongation
- occasional
- 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 - long flattened, tapered 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
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- elongated no 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
vocalization and diacritics
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- tall denticles