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Portal, Thessaloniki, 1467-1468, Thuluth
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Vincent Thérouin, . (n.d.). Portal, Thessaloniki, 1467-1468, Thuluth (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4171
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Vincent Thérouin. n.d. “Portal, Thessaloniki, 1467-1468, Thuluth.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4171
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Vincent Thérouin. Portal, Thessaloniki, 1467-1468, Thuluth, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4171
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Balkans_VT_14
- Author
- Vincent Thérouin
- Date
- 872 H.
- 1467 – 1468
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Greece, Central Macedonia, Thessaloniki
- Present Location
- mosque of Hamza Bey, Thessaloniki
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Foundation inscription
- Text Content
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(١) و إن المساجد ...
(٢) بناء هذه (كذا) المسجد المبارك حفصه بنت حمزة بك طارب
(٣) رحم اللّه لمن نظر فيه و دعا لصاحبه تأريخ إثنى و سبعين و ثمانماية - Script
- Thuluth
- Type of Object
- architectural element\portal
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- rectangular
- Size (of the object)
- 50 x 69 cm
- 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. 260, no. 2029.
- Bıçakçı, İsmail. Yunanistan’da Türk Mimarî Eserleri. Istanbul, 2003, p. 314.
- Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Directorate of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Antiquities, editors. Ottoman Architecture in Greece. Athens, 2008, p. 222.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- rectangular
- Presence of Elongation
- occasional
- 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
- wide deep bowl
- jīm ḥāʾ khā' and ‘ain ghayn descenders
- closed looped tail
- yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders
- backward horizontal stroke
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - curvilinear flattened bowl
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- rounded base denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- medial short pointed denticles
- initial/medial slightly inclined to left
counters
- hā' counters
- isolated one-eyed triangular (murabba'ah)
- final multi-knotted form (musalsalah)
- final s-shaped (muḥdawdibah)
- initial / medial double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah)
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- rounded head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle
- mīm counters
- rounded head pointed chin
vocalization and diacritics
- fatḥa kasra vocalization and diacritics
- elongated stroke
- hamza vocalization and diacritics
- small inverse Z
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- tall denticles touching upper vowel