Image: Muccunti Mosque Iscription (cropped)
Description: Muccunti Mosque Inscription (Calicut, India). The inscription is undated, but can be positioned on paleographic grounds to the 13th century CE. The content is divided on functional grounds between old Malayalam and Arabic. The concluding portion is in Arabic, while the functional portion recording the specific details of the donation is in old Malayalam. The script of the old Malayalam portion is Vateluttu, a type of medieval script closely related to modern Malayalam and Tamil. The letters are not carved into the stone surface – like the usual Kodungallur Chera style – but are raised on the stone in imitation of the standard practice in Islamic inscriptions
Title: Muccunti Mosque Iscription (cropped)
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