Anatolia, Balkans & Crimea – Items
Portal, Eskiyurt and Azizler, 14th - early 15th century, Thuluth
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APA
Nicole Kançal-Ferrari, . (n.d.). Portal, Eskiyurt and Azizler, 14th - early 15th century, Thuluth (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4191
Chicago
Nicole Kançal-Ferrari. n.d. “Portal, Eskiyurt and Azizler, 14th - early 15th century, Thuluth.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4191
MLA
Nicole Kançal-Ferrari. Portal, Eskiyurt and Azizler, 14th - Early 15th Century, Thuluth, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4191
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Crimea_NKF_12
- Author
- Nicole Kançal-Ferrari
- Date
- 1301 – 1425
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Crimea, Eskiyurt, Azizler (Qırq Azizler)
- Present Location
- Eskiyurt and Azizler/Qırq Azizler, in situ (Crimea)
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Foundation inscription
- Text Content
- "The edifice was constructed by Muhammad Shah Beg, himself the son of Muhammad Beg, for his mother Buyude Sultan, the daughter of Acagan Beg"
- Script
- Thuluth
- Remarks (General Identification)
- Interlaced, superposed thuluth
- Type of Object
- architectural element\portal
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- rectangular
- Size (of the object)
- ca. 120 x 40 cm
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- interlaced, superposed
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
- Bibliography
- Borzenko, G. A. “Бахчесарайские Арабские и Турецкие Надписи (Bakhchisaraiskie Arabskie i Turetskie Nadpisi).” In Zapiski Odesskogo Obshchestva Istorii i Drevnostei, vol. 2. Odessa, 1850. 489–528 ;
- 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. 337-338.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- rectangular
- Presence of Elongation
- absent
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- inclined square
Ascenders
- Alif Ascenders
- alif - elongated vertical shaft
- Lām Ascenders
- lām - elongated vertical shaft
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - long flattened, tapered tail
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- deep bowl
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - short curvilinear flattened bowl
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- rounded base denticles with first denticle extended
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial slightly inclined to left
counters
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- rounded head needle point eye