Anatolia, Balkans & Crimea – Items
Mihrab, Qirim, 1314-1315, Thuluth
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Cite
APA
Nicole Kançal-Ferrari, . (n.d.). Mihrab, Qirim, 1314-1315, Thuluth (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4187
Chicago
Nicole Kançal-Ferrari. n.d. “Mihrab, Qirim, 1314-1315, Thuluth.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4187
MLA
Nicole Kançal-Ferrari. Mihrab, Qirim, 1314-1315, Thuluth, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4187
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Crimea_NKF_08
- Author
- Nicole Kançal-Ferrari
- Date
- 714 H.
- 1314 – 1315
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Crimea, Qirim (Solkhat), Özbeg Khan Mosque
- Present Location
- Özbeg Khan Mosque, Qirim (also known as Solkhat) (Crimea)
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Quran
- Text Content
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Kalimat al-tawhid and Quranic verses: the Throne Verse (2:255) on the mihrab’s outer
frame, with a spiral foliate scroll behind the letters; verses from the al-Imran (3:18 and part of 3:19) in the upper part of the niche; and a part of al-Mu'min (40:16). - Script
- Thuluth
- Remarks (General Identification)
- overpaint several times
- Type of Object
- architectural element\mihrab
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- band
- Size (of the object)
- outher frame inscription: 190 x 380 cm, inscription size ca. 30 cm; lower front inscription: 30 x 113 cm; inner niche band: 70 cm + 2 x 25 cm, total of ca. 120 cm. inscription band
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- interlaced, superposed
- 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 ;
- Kançal-Ferrari, Nicole, and Şen, Fatma M.. “Inscriptions from the Golden Horde Period and the Crimean Khanate in Crimea: A Body of Hitherto Neglected Material within the Study of the Inscriptions of Islamic Lands.” In Inscriptions of the Medieval Islamic World, edited by A. C. S. Peacock, Bernard O’Kane, and Mark Muehlhaeusler. Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art. Edinburgh University Press, 2023. 335 ;
- Kirilko, V. P. “Periodisation of Construction of the So Called Uzbek Mosque from Stary Krym.” In The Genoese Gazaria and the Golden Horde, Sergei Bocharov and Ayrat Sitdikov,. Stratum Plus, 2015. 509-558.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- rectangular
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- oblique
- Presence of Elongation
- rare
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- round dot
Ascenders
- Alif Ascenders
- alif - top right serif
- alif - elongated vertical shaft
- alif - shaft tapers from thick to thin
- Lām Ascenders
- lām - vertical
- lām - top right serif
- lām - elongated vertical shaft
- lām - shaft tapers from thick to thin
- Kāf Ascenders
- no top arm and superscript kāf
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wide rounded tail
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - thick angular oblique tapered tail
- mīm descenders
- mīm - long flattened, tapered tail
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- wide deep bowl
denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial top right serif
counters
- hā' counters
- initial / medial double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah)
- initial / medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr)
- final one-eyed (mardufah) inclined to left
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle
- mīm counters
- circular head
vocalization and diacritics
- ḍamma vocalization and diacritics
- comma
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- short denticles