Anatolia, Balkans & Crimea – Items
Portal, Qirim, 1314-1315, Thuluth
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Cite
APA
Nicole Kançal-Ferrari, . (n.d.). Portal, Qirim, 1314-1315, Thuluth (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4188
Chicago
Nicole Kançal-Ferrari. n.d. “Portal, Qirim, 1314-1315, Thuluth.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4188
MLA
Nicole Kançal-Ferrari. Portal, Qirim, 1314-1315, Thuluth, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4188
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Crimea_NKF_09
- 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
- Foundation inscription
- Text Content
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الحمد لله على الاية و صلى على محمد حلفائه امر هذا بعماره المسجد المبارك فى ايام دولت
خان الاعظم محمد ازبك خلد الله ملكه العبد الضعيف المحتاج الراجى رحمت ربه و غفر انه عبد
العزيز ابن ابراهيم الاربلى فى سنه اربع عشر و سبعمائة الهلا ليه - Thanks be to God tor His signs. Prayers and peace/ unto Prophet Muhammad and the caliphs who followed him. The great khan Muhammad Özbeg Khan, may God make eternal his kingdom, commanded during his reign the construction of this blessed masjid. "Abd al-'Aziz b. Ibrähim al-Irbili, God's poor servant and a petitioner in need of His grace and mercy, in the year 714 of the lunar calendar.
- Script
- Thuluth
- Color of the Script
- red
- Type of Object
- architectural element\portal
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- band
- Size (of the object)
- band: 250 cm (central part), 2 x 50 cm (side parts)
- 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. 333-334.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- rectangular
- Presence of Elongation
- rare
- Elongated Letters
- yā’ rajiah
- 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' - long flattened, tapered tail
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- wide deep bowl
- jīm ḥāʾ khā' and ‘ain ghayn descenders
- backward tail
- yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders
- backward horizontal stroke
denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial top right serif
counters
- hā' counters
- initial / medial double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah)
- final one-eyed (mardufah) inclined to left
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- soft triangular head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle
- mīm counters
- circular head
vocalization and diacritics
- ḍamma vocalization and diacritics
- comma
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- wide denticles