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Portal, Sarajevo, 1561-1562, Thuluth
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APA
Vincent Thérouin, . (n.d.). Portal, Sarajevo, 1561-1562, Thuluth (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4177
Chicago
Vincent Thérouin. n.d. “Portal, Sarajevo, 1561-1562, Thuluth.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4177
MLA
Vincent Thérouin. Portal, Sarajevo, 1561-1562, Thuluth, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4177
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Balkans_VT_20
- Author
- Vincent Thérouin
- Date
- 969 H.
- 1561 – 1562
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo Canton, Sarajevo
- Present Location
- mosque of Ferhad Bey, Sarajevo
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Foundation inscription
- Text Content
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(١) قد بنى فرهاد بك هذا البنا // مجمع الزهاد دار العابدين
(٢) قد هدى اللّه لنا تأريخه // حسبت للّه ربّ العالمين - Script
- Thuluth
- Type of Object
- architectural element\portal
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- rectangular
- Size (of the object)
- 57 x 122 cm
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
- Bibliography
- Ayverdi, Ekrem Hakkı. Avrupa’da Osmanlı Mimarî Eserleri: Yugoslavya. Vol. 2, book 3, Istanbul, 1981, p. 339, no. 2191.
- Mujezinović, Mehmed. Islamska epigrafika u Bosni i Hercegovini: Sarajevo. Vol. 1, Sarajevo, 1974, p. 413.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- rectangular
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- oblique
- Presence of Elongation
- occasional
- Elongated Letters
- yā’ rajiah
- Length of Elongation
- varied length of elongations
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- inclined square
Ascenders
Descenders
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - rounded tail
- 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
- sīn shīn denticles
- rounded base denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- medial short pointed denticles
- leftward stroke with short hook
counters
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- rounded head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle
- mīm counters
- soft triangular head tilted left
vocalization and diacritics
- fatḥa kasra vocalization and diacritics
- elongated stroke
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- tall denticles