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Portal, Thessaloniki, 1430-1431, Thuluth
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Vincent Thérouin, . (n.d.). Portal, Thessaloniki, 1430-1431, Thuluth (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4169
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Vincent Thérouin. n.d. “Portal, Thessaloniki, 1430-1431, Thuluth.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4169
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Vincent Thérouin. Portal, Thessaloniki, 1430-1431, Thuluth, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4169
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Balkans_VT_12
- Author
- Vincent Thérouin
- Date
- 834 H.
- 1430 – 1431
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Greece, Central Macedonia, Thessaloniki
- Present Location
- Yedi Kule, Thessaloniki
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Foundation inscription
- Text Content
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بعون الله و نصره و قهره سلطان سلاطين العرب من اعدائه من يدي الافرج و النصري و قتل بعضهم و اسر بعضهم و اولادهم وامر الهم و بعد مضي مادته من السنه و بني و عمر هذه القله بيد ملك الامرا و الاكابر چاوش بك في شهر رمضان المبارك لسنه اربع و ثمائته <١>
- ب - مراد بن محمّد خان - Script
- Thuluth
- Type of Object
- architectural element\portal
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- rectangular
- 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. 9, no. 4.
- Ayverdi, Ekrem Hakkı. Avrupa’da Osmanlı Mimârî Eserleri: Bulgaristan, Yunanistan, Arnavudluk. Vol. 4, books 4–6, Istanbul, 1982, p. 285.
- Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Directorate of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Antiquities, editors. Ottoman Architecture in Greece. Athens, 2008, pp. 216–218.
- Kiel, Machiel. “Notes on the History of Some Turkish Monuments in Thessaloniki and Their Founders.” Balkan Studies, vol. 11, 1970, p. 130.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- rectangular
- 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 - 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
- jīm ḥāʾ khā' and ‘ain ghayn descenders
- backward partial tail
- yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders
- backward oblique stroke
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - curvilinear flattened bowl
denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- medial short pointed denticles
- initial/medial slightly inclined to left
counters
- hā' counters
- final s-shaped (muḥdawdibah)
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- rounded head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle