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Portal, Thessaloniki, 1444-1445, Thuluth
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Vincent Thérouin, . (n.d.). Portal, Thessaloniki, 1444-1445, Thuluth (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4170
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Vincent Thérouin. n.d. “Portal, Thessaloniki, 1444-1445, Thuluth.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4170
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Vincent Thérouin. Portal, Thessaloniki, 1444-1445, Thuluth, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4170
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Balkans_VT_13
- Author
- Vincent Thérouin
- Date
- 848 H.
- 1444 – 1445
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Greece, Central Macedonia, Thessaloniki
- Present Location
- Bey Hamam, Thessaloniki
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Foundation inscription
- Text Content
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(١) بنى و عمّر هذا البناء المبارك لرسم إمام المسلمين سلطان الغزاة و المجاهدين سلطان مراد خان بن سلطان
(٢) محمّد بن بايزيد خان خلّد اللّه ملكه و أبّد دولته فى زمانه و عهده بأمره و حكمه النافذ الميمون أنفذه اللّه إلى يوم يبعثون
(٣) و تمّ فى الشهر المبارك جمادى الأولى من سنة ثمان و أربعين و ثمانمائة هجريّة نبويّة هلاليّة - Script
- Thuluth
- Type of Object
- architectural element\portal
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- rectangular
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
- Bibliography
- Ayverdi, Ekrem Hakkı. Avrupa’da Osmanlı Mimarî Eserleri: Bulgaristan, Yunanistan, Arnavudluk. Vol. 4, books 4–6, Istanbul, 1982, p. 268, no. 2198.
- Bıçakçı, İsmail. Yunanistan’da Türk Mimarî Eserleri. Istanbul, 2003, p. 328.
- Delilbaşı, Melek. “Sultan II. Murad’ın Fetihten Sonra (29 Mart 1430) Selânik’te İzlediği Politika ve Bir Hamam Kitabesi.” Tarih Araştırmaları Dergisi, vol. 14, no. 25, 1981–1982, p. 363.
- Eyice, Semavi. “Yunanistan’da Türk Mimarî Eserleri.” Türkiyat Mecmuası, vol. 11, 1954, p. 170.
- 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.” Balkan Studies, vol. 11, no. 2, 1970, p. 149.
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
- yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders
- backward horizontal stroke
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