Sword for identification

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Originally Posted by ausjulius

hello this looks like a souvenir sword probably from iran, georgia has such tourist items too but theyed get the cyrillic correct or put georgian script.

the false damascus pattern and the shape of the blade are pretty typical of such items form iran.

but the pictures and weird text are very strange typically it iwll be islamic phrases and to be sold to muslim pilgrim-tourists in markets
it appears to be fake Cyrillic.. most likely this was made to sell to russian tourists. the text is an attempt at mimic cyrillic text.

no person in the caucasus in a muslim population would make such a text and intend it to be arabic as any mullah or other such religious person able to write at all or any person buying the item for such a purpose could read arabic if not understand it they recognized the letters. and anyone who attended a madrassa could read and write it. they can just copy a phrase from a koran under the instruction of somebody who did if they didnt understand it.

id say it falls into the category of those weird tourist "weapons" sold in iran and india,

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