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Portal, Thessaloniki, 1484-1485, Thuluth
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Vincent Thérouin, . (n.d.). Portal, Thessaloniki, 1484-1485, Thuluth (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4172
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Vincent Thérouin. n.d. “Portal, Thessaloniki, 1484-1485, Thuluth.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4172
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Vincent Thérouin. Portal, Thessaloniki, 1484-1485, Thuluth, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4172
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Balkans_VT_15
- Author
- Vincent Thérouin
- Date
- 889 H.
- 1484 – 1485
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Greece, Central Macedonia, Thessaloniki
- Present Location
- Alaca İmaret, Thessaloniki
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Foundation inscription
- Text Content
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(١) دار خير قد بنى دستور خاقان المعين * أعنى إسحق بن إبراهيم للحق المبين
(٢) تم فى شهر المحرم يسر اللّه أجرها * فى رياض الخلد طبتم فأدخلوها خالدين
(٣) حبذا دار المعلى نصرة للناظرين * روضة عين مصطفى لذه للشاربين
(٤) أنظروا يا معشر الأبرار إلى تأريخها * أعملوا بالزهد فيها نعم أجر العاملين
سنة ٨٨٩ - Script
- Thuluth
- Type of Object
- architectural element\portal
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- rectangular
- Size (of the object)
- 65 x 125 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. 256, no. 1983.
- Bıçakçı, İsmail. Yunanistan’da Türk Mimarî Eserleri. Istanbul, 2003, p. 318.
- Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Directorate of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Antiquities, editors. Ottoman Architecture in Greece. Athens, 2008, pp. 229–31.
- Yüksel, İ. Aydın. Osmanlı Mimârîsinde II. Bâyezid ve Yavuz Selim Devri (886–926/1481–1520). Vol. 5, Istanbul, 1983, p. 364, no. SE. 1.
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
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
- 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
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- rounded head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle
vocalization and diacritics
- fatḥa kasra vocalization and diacritics
- elongated stroke
- ḍamma vocalization and diacritics
- comma
- hamza vocalization and diacritics
- small ‘ain
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- tall denticles