Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - A kind of pesh kabz, opinion and translation please

ariel · 26th June 2022, 12:35 PM

Islamic dating very often omits not the last number but the first one: millennium.
Rather than reading the date as a 139(?) it is ( IMHO) more likely to be 1139, i.e. 1726-27 Gregorian.
The general appearance does not seem to agree with late 20 century, but the 18th one is quite probable. How about a good pic of the entire thing, blade, handle, scabbard, photographed directly from above?
You may want to send a pm to Kwiatek, I bet he can read the cartouches and verify my dating.

26th June 2022, 12:35 PM	#2
ariel Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Ann Arbor, MI Posts: 5,503	Islamic dating very often omits not the last number but the first one: millennium. Rather than reading the date as a 139(?) it is ( IMHO) more likely to be 1139, i.e. 1726-27 Gregorian. The general appearance does not seem to agree with late 20 century, but the 18th one is quite probable. How about a good pic of the entire thing, blade, handle, scabbard, photographed directly from above? You may want to send a pm to Kwiatek, I bet he can read the cartouches and verify my dating. Last edited by ariel; 26th June 2022 at 12:47 PM.