Anatolia, Balkans & Crimea – Items
Tombstone, Qirim, 14th - 15th century, Thuluth
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Cite
APA
Nicole Kançal-Ferrari, . (n.d.). Tombstone, Qirim, 14th - 15th century, Thuluth (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4185
Chicago
Nicole Kançal-Ferrari. n.d. “Tombstone, Qirim, 14th - 15th century, Thuluth.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4185
MLA
Nicole Kançal-Ferrari. Tombstone, Qirim, 14th - 15th Century, Thuluth, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4185
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Crimea_NKF_06
- Author
- Nicole Kançal-Ferrari
- Date
- 1301 – 1500
- 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
- surroundings of the Özbeg Khan Mosque, Qirim (also known as Solkhat) (Crimea)
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Quran
- Nature of the Text
- Epitaph
- Script
- Thuluth regional variant
- Type of Object
- cenotaph/tombstone
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- other
- Size (of the object)
- length ca. 200 cm
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- 3 lines on every long side, total 6 lines
- 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.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- rectangular
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- oblique
- Presence of Elongation
- absent
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- round dot
Ascenders
- Alif Ascenders
- alif - shaft tapers from thick to thin
- Lām Ascenders
- lām - shaft tapers from thick to thin
- Kāf Ascenders
- Initial /medial compact form diagonal body
Descenders
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- wide deep bowl
- yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders
- backward oblique stroke
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- short pointed denticles
counters
- hā' counters
- final s-shaped (muḥdawdibah)
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- rounded head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle
- mīm counters
- circular head
vocalization and diacritics
- ḍamma vocalization and diacritics
- comma