Salaams All ~ Please note the more accurate letters represented as
A 5 1 U U A
I puzzle as to the language. Is it an unrelated fact that this weapon is said to have been purchased in Yemen ...is the star shape a red herring since it seems to be part of an elongated tang...or...?
We have a series of letters that look like
A 5 1 U U A Not English but Latin or Greek or.... ?
Taking each letter one by one;
A ...Perhaps Not an
A but possibly since there is one at each end of the letters some sort of brackets in which the saying is placed possibly a holy incantation thus what appears to be crown shaped A at each end...I pencil in
Crown A Shapes..
5 ...not a full 5...the top is missing. Is this a figure 3(Gimmel) in Hebrew ... ? Or is it the much more interesting Zayin in Hebrew...In its cursive form? Which means a number of different concepts/things including the number 7. It also stands for Jesus combined with the Holy Spirit...and interestingly enough a weapon or sword.
I ...see below. As a number its a
6
U U ..each looks like an inside out
u As a number it is 9....so we have
9 9
It appears to read from the left
A 7 6 9 9 A where the A are crowns? and where there is also a possibility that the fig 7 could be something entirely different !
Note. see
http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Gra...yin/zayin.html
see
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/167759154844035074/ for more numerical/letter clues.
Regards,
Ibrahiim al Balooshi.