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Originally Posted by Pertinax
Hi ausjulius.
The text has nothing to do with Cyrillic. The letters H, E, Р in the text are both in Cyrillic and in the Latin alphabet, some letters resemble ancient Armenian and Ethiopian.
The item is not for sale and not for tourists.
If you have examples of such "tourist weapons" - show them.
I recommend reading:
Malozyomova E. I. Holodnoe oruzhie i ritual'no-teatralizovannye predstavlenija v Irane [Edged Weapons and Ritualized Theatrical Performances in Iran]. Is-toricheskoe oruzhievedenie [Weapons History Journal], № 8, pp. 151 — 189.
https://historical-weapons.com/wp-co.../io_8_2020.pdf
Best regards,
Yuri |
Hi Yuri, yes I know the text has nothing to do with cyrillic . It is just random shaped by a person who can't ready cyrillic.
It is like the European mediaeval fantasy text Mongolian writing in art or the fantasy text Latin scrip gibberish on some Chinese made guns or the "puma" " Adidas" or "made in France" nonsence you see on some Soviet prison knives blades. It is simply a cheaply made souvenir fantasy item. Like the cheap Zulfiqars you could buy or others I have seen many just like your one with iron handles and thin floppy blunt tipped blades hist as this. Shallow arabic writing acot etched. Fake Damascus patters. Just as yours. The difference is the weird images on the blade. But this is not a mystery weapon from some missing culture. It's just a souvenir item made in persia