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Portal, Sarajevo, 1555-1556, Thuluth
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APA
Vincent Thérouin, . (n.d.). Portal, Sarajevo, 1555-1556, Thuluth (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4179
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Vincent Thérouin. n.d. “Portal, Sarajevo, 1555-1556, Thuluth.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4179
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Vincent Thérouin. Portal, Sarajevo, 1555-1556, Thuluth, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4179
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Balkans_VT_22
- Author
- Vincent Thérouin
- Date
- 963 H.
- 1555 – 1556
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo Canton, Sarajevo
- Present Location
- mosque of Bozacı-zade Hacı Hasan, Sarajevo
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Foundation inscription
- Text Content
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قد بنى هذا البناء للصالحين / من هو فخر لقوم ما نحين
قال فيض الربّ تأريخا له / جنّة الماوا و دار الصالحين - Script
- Thuluth
- Type of Object
- architectural element\portal
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- rectangular
- Size (of the object)
- 50 x 110 cm
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
- Bibliography
- Ayverdi, Ekrem Hakkı. Avrupa’da Osmanlı Mimarî Eserleri: Yugoslavya. Vol. 2, book 3, Istanbul, 1981, p. 318, no. 2161.
- Mujezinović, Mehmed. Islamska epigrafika u Bosni i Hercegovini: Sarajevo. Vol. 1, Sarajevo, 1974, p. 376.
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
- wāw descenders
- wāw - rounded tail
- mīm descenders
- mīm - long flattened, tapered tail
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- wide deep bowl
- yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders
- backward horizontal stroke
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - elongated 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
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- rounded head
- mīm counters
- rounded head
vocalization and diacritics
- fatḥa kasra vocalization and diacritics
- elongated stroke
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- tall denticles