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Portal, Qirq-yer/Çufutkale, 1438, Thuluth
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APA
Nicole Kançal-Ferrari, . (n.d.). Portal, Qirq-yer/Çufutkale, 1438, Thuluth (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4192
Chicago
Nicole Kançal-Ferrari. n.d. “Portal, Qirq-yer/Çufutkale, 1438, Thuluth.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4192
MLA
Nicole Kançal-Ferrari. Portal, Qirq-Yer Çufutkale, 1438, Thuluth, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4192
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Crimea_NKF_13
- Author
- Nicole Kançal-Ferrari
- Date
- 841 H.
- 1438
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Crimea, Çufutkale (Qirq-yer)
- Present Location
- Qirq-yer/Çufutkale
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Funerary text
- Nature of the Text
- Epitaph
- Script
- Thuluth regional variant
- Type of Object
- architectural element\portal
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- rectangular
- Size (of the object)
- ca. 120 x 40 cm
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- two lines
- 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;
- Aqçoqraqlı, Osman. “Новое Из Истории Чуфут-Кале (Novoe Iz Istorii Chufut-Kale’).” In Izvestiia Tavricheskogo Obshchestva Istorii, Arkheologii i Etnografii, 2 (59). Simferopol, 1928. 158–72;
- Aqçoqraqlı, Osman. “Эпиграфические Находки На Чуфут-Кале (Epigrafiçeskie Nahodki Na Chufut-Kale).” In Izbrannye Sochineniya Po Istorii. Arheologii. Etnografii, ooo Форма. Simferopol, 2016. 183–7;
- 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. 337-339.
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
- Kāf Ascenders
- no top arm and superscript kāf
Descenders
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- wide deep bowl
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- short bowl
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- rounded base denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial top right serif
counters
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- rounded head needle point eye