Bronze aceh shield with islamic inscriptions
 

Hi there,

Last week I found this Aceh shield size 37 cm round.
the decorations are very detailed but what more unusual is the islamic inscriptions. Can any help me with the translation?

Arjan.

some more pics

Islam inscriptions.
 

Mmmm... :rolleyes:

Normally I would not be impressed by writing on Aceh items.
I only see them on new made rencongs.

But this shield is not new made at all.

Maybe Alam Shah can assist ? :shrug:

Ps. note that the text is not engraved or anything, it is actually casted with the shield.

Hi Arjan

you have to ;
- present your pics after an horzontal rotation to be readable
- found a translator in "farsi" because if the alphabet is arabic, not the language, and by that way, the inscriptions are not islamic

sorry if nothing more to help :shrug:

regards

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Dom

I like to now if any museum has this type off shield in their collection or there is an pic that an Atjeh warrior carry one.

I never found one .




Ben

Hi ben ,

I found some on the site from Leiden.
but as far as I can see without inscriptions.

Based on the pictures I know, real warriors only carried rottan shields covered with textile and brass stars.

But than again, there not so many pictures of Atjeh warriors.

This one looks like a brass shield.
Nice shield btw Arjan!


Michael

Hi Michael that is an Rattan shield covered with textiles
Like Willem means .


Ben

Yep, the textile is under the stars and the nails.

I only know 1 shield with the textile still there and that is in the 'Legermuseum' in Delft.

Sadly their website does not have any pictures.

Willem you schould visit Nijmegen they have enough.
I have also one you see the textile under the stars .


Ben

I see you can provide with the pictures from Nijmegen. So that is nice too. :)