Tombstone, Qirim, 1374-1375, Thuluth

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License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Entry ID: Crimea_NKF_05
Author: Nicole Kançal-Ferrari
Contributor(s): Vincent Thérouin; Nuria Garcia Masip
Date: 776 H.; 1374 – 1375
Localization Exactitude Degree: Exact
Place of Production: Crimea, Qirim (Solkhat), surroundings of the Özbeg Khan Mosque
Remarks (Place of Production): coordinates correspond to the archaeological site of discovery
Present Location: Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg 59°56′26″ N 30°18′49″ E
Language: Turkish; Arabic
Type of text: Funerary text
Nature of the Text: Epitaph
Text Content: اللَّه .هذه تربة دولت بنت الحاج عبد اللَّه
Script: Thuluth regional variant
Type of Object: cenotaph/tombstone
Shape (Epigraphy): other
Size (of the object): length ca. 170 cm
Layout (Epigraphy & Objects): two lines on the top of the cenotaph; the "hipped" upper part containes one line on each side; two lines on side parts.
Technique: carved / bas-relief - flat relief
Instrument: chisel
Bibliography: Aqçoqraqlı, Osman. “Старо-Крымские и Отузские Надписи XIII–XV Вв (Staro-Krymskie i Otuzskie Nadpisi XIII–XV Vv).” Izvestiia Tavricheskogo Obshchestva Istorii, Arkheologii i Etnografii 1, no. 58 (1927): 5–17. no. 24;

See the lexicon

bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals: bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - elongated curvilinear flattened bowl

initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles: initial perpendicular to baseline