Anatolia, Balkans & Crimea – Items
Tombstone, Qirq-yer/Çufutkale, 1438, Thuluth
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APA
Nicole Kançal-Ferrari, . (n.d.). Tombstone, Qirq-yer/Çufutkale, 1438, Thuluth (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4193
Chicago
Nicole Kançal-Ferrari. n.d. “Tombstone, Qirq-yer/Çufutkale, 1438, Thuluth.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4193
MLA
Nicole Kançal-Ferrari. Tombstone, Qirq-Yer Çufutkale, 1438, Thuluth, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/4193
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Crimea_NKF_14
- 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
- Hadith
- Epitaph
- Script
- Thuluth regional variant
- Type of Object
- cenotaph/tombstone
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- other
- Size (of the object)
- ca. 140 cm
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- two lines on the top of the cenotaph; the "hipped" upper part containes one line on each side; three lines on side parts.
- 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;
- 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. 324-359.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Presence of Elongation
- absent
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- non-nuanced strokes
Letter Morphology
- Point
- inclined square
Ascenders
- Kāf Ascenders
- initial /medial compact form rounded body
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - rounded tail
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - s-shaped
- mīm descenders
- mīm - s-shape
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- 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
- hā' counters
- initial / medial double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah)
- final multi-knotted form (musalsalah)
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- rounded head needle point eye
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- compact inverted triangle / open or closed eye
- mīm counters
- circular head
vocalization and diacritics
- ḍamma vocalization and diacritics
- comma
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- wide denticles