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Portal, Serres, 1492-1493, Thuluth
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Vincent Thérouin, . (n.d.). Portal, Serres, 1492-1493, Thuluth (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4173
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Vincent Thérouin. n.d. “Portal, Serres, 1492-1493, Thuluth.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4173
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Vincent Thérouin. Portal, Serres, 1492-1493, Thuluth, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4173
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Balkans_VT_16
- Author
- Vincent Thérouin
- Date
- 898 H.
- 1492 – 1493
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Greece, Central Macedonia, Serres
- Present Location
- mosque of Gedik Ahmet Paşa/Mehmed Bey, Serres
- Website Link
- http://www.epigraphie-islamique.uliege.be/thesaurus/User/EpigraphyDisplay.aspx?id=38693&pan=1&st=GRECE-Serres*&sc=5
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Foundation inscription
- Text Content
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(١) جامع هذا محمّد بك بنى * حسبة للّه دار الساجدين
(٢) إبن أحمد باشا سلطان الغزاه * آصف الإسلام نصر العابدين
(٣) قل لختم ملهما تأريخه * جامع الأبرار دار الحامدين - 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. 278, no. 2430.
- Bıçakçı, İsmail. Yunanistan’da Türk Mimarî Eserleri. Istanbul, 2003, p. 349.
- Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Directorate of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Antiquities, editors. Ottoman Architecture in Greece. Athens, 2008, p. 279.
- Kiel, Machiel. “The Turkish Monuments of Komotini and Serres.” Balkan Studies, vol. 12, 1971, p. 435.
- Türkoğlu, M. “Serez’de Gedik Ahmet Paşa Camii.” Batı Trakya’nın Sesi, vol. 5, no. 36, 1991, p. 21.
- Yüksel, İbrahim Aydın. Osmanlı Mimârîsinde II. Bâyezid ve Yavuz Selim Devri (886–926/1481–1520). Vol. 5, Istanbul, 1983, p. 368, no. SER. 6.
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
- jīm ḥāʾ khā' and ‘ain ghayn descenders
- closed looped tail
- 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
- isolated one-eyed triangular (murabba'ah)
- 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
vocalization and diacritics
- fatḥa kasra vocalization and diacritics
- elongated stroke
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- tall denticles