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Portal, Skopje, 1475-1476, Thuluth
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Vincent Thérouin, . (n.d.). Portal, Skopje, 1475-1476, Thuluth (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4165
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Vincent Thérouin. n.d. “Portal, Skopje, 1475-1476, Thuluth.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4165
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Vincent Thérouin. Portal, Skopje, 1475-1476, Thuluth, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4165
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Balkans_VT_08
- Author
- Vincent Thérouin
- Date
- 880 H.
- 1475 – 1476
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- North Macedonia, Skopje
- Present Location
- cami of İshakoğlu İsa Bey, Skopje
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Foundation inscription
- Text Content
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(١) أمر ببناء هذه العمارة الشريفة المباركة المرحوم المغفور الغازى عيسى بك بن المرحوم المغفور الحاج
(٢) اسحاقبك فى أيام السلطان بن السلطان محما (كذا) خان بن السلطان بن السلطان مراد خان أحسن اللّه تعالى حال سلطنته ابتغاء لمرضاته فى تأريخ ثمانين و ثمانمائة - Script
- Thuluth
- Type of Object
- architectural element\portal
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- rectangular
- Size (of the object)
- 50 x 135 cm
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
- Bibliography
- Ayverdi, Ekrem Hakkı. Avrupa’da Osmanlı Mimarî Eserleri: Yugoslavya. Vol. 3, book 3, Istanbul, 1981, p. 254, no. 5972.
- Ayverdi, Ekrem Hakkı. Osmanlı mî‘mârîsinde Fâtih devri, 855–886/1451–1481. Vol. 4, Istanbul, 1974, p. 874.
- Ayverdi, Ekrem Hakkı. “Yugoslavya’da Türk âbideleri ve vakıfları.” Vakıflar Dergisi, vol. 3, 1957, p. 6.
- Elezović, Gligorije. “Turski spomenici u Skoplju.” Glasnik Skopskog naučnog društva, no. 1, 1926, pp. 167–168.
- Elezović, Gligorije. Turski spomenici. Vol. 1, part 2, Zbornik za istočnjačku istorijsku i književnu građu, Srpska Kraljevska Akademija, Belgrade, 1952, p. 46.
- Pavlov, Zoran. Macedonian Cultural Heritage: Ottoman Monuments. Skopje, 2008, p. 68.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- rectangular
- Line of Writing
- horizontal
- 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
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
- yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders
- backward horizontal stroke
denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- medial short pointed denticles
- initial perpendicular to baseline
- initial top right serif
counters
- hā' counters
- isolated one-eyed triangular (murabba'ah)
- initial / medial rounded double eyed (wajh al-hirr)
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- rounded head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle
vocalization and diacritics
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- tall denticles