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28th August 2016, 02:51 AM | #1 |
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Comments on the age of this sword would also be appreciated.
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28th August 2016, 07:53 PM | #2 |
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sketch of text
It is surprisingly hard to get much detail from the photos, so I made a sketch and digitally refined it. Also, I found a couple links to old Berber/Moroccan scripts but this does not seem like a good match to either,
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/tifinagh.htm http://www.omniglot.com/writing/berber.htm |
28th August 2016, 08:33 PM | #3 | |
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I think I can see some similarities with the Berber script. Maybe is alocal variety of the Berber script. Most puzzling for sure! |
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28th August 2016, 08:48 PM | #4 | |
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Look at this link and you will have your answer. http://www.brownlee.com.au/Pages/And...ra_swords.html and the link of our glorious pope http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...rs+trade+marks for Andrea Ferrara marks and the bee / fly stamp Best, Kubur |
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29th August 2016, 12:59 PM | #5 |
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Sorry I missed it
Kubur,
I'm unsure what I was supposed to find in those threads. Marcus |
29th August 2016, 05:57 PM | #6 |
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The small mark is European, just like the overall gestalt of the blade: very accurate and precise.
The crude inscription IMHO is a latter add-on to simulate Latin alphabet. I looked at it from every possible angle and couldn't make heads or tails out of it. Most likely , in the immortal words of Mel Brooks, it is an " authentic frontier gibberish". |
1st September 2016, 02:08 AM | #7 |
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THE TWO LINES OF SQUIGLE ARE THE SAME ...EXCEPT THAT THE SECOND OR LOWER LINE IS BADLY EXECUTED....
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1st September 2016, 06:45 AM | #8 |
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It's Klingon!
PS: I think Ariel is right, unless it is a very little known local Berber script. Very interesting how Europeans tried to imitate the Arabic script without having any knowledge of it, while at the same time other people tried to imitate Latin script. |
2nd September 2016, 07:16 PM | #9 |
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Four times a charm
I agree that the two lines try to be the same. Incidentally, the same string of characters is repeated twice on the other side of the sword as well. If it is gibberish, it was interesting enough to repeat four times!
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