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motan · 1st August 2019, 07:31 AM

Hi all,
Thanks for participating in this thread. Don't get me wrong, I still think that Southern Iraq or North Eastern Arabia are the most probable origin of my dagger. The reasoning is simple - 1. Central bulge in hilt is Iraqi or Syrian, 2. Silver and decoration is Arabian - not Iraqi and certainly not Syrian.
My other examples are only there to support the hypothesis that there is a source of certain types of daggers somewhere in the space between central Syria (not the main cities), South Western Iraq and Eastern Jordan and it influenced daggers from Iraq, Palestine and Syria. After all, the states in the region as known to us are post WWI creations and did not mean much in the Ottoman era, especially outside urbanized areas.
I can see that the blade is indeed wootz and will post pics when I have cleaned and etched it.

1st August 2019, 07:31 AM	#14
motan Member Join Date: Apr 2016 Location: Jerusalem Posts: 274	Hi all, Thanks for participating in this thread. Don't get me wrong, I still think that Southern Iraq or North Eastern Arabia are the most probable origin of my dagger. The reasoning is simple - 1. Central bulge in hilt is Iraqi or Syrian, 2. Silver and decoration is Arabian - not Iraqi and certainly not Syrian. My other examples are only there to support the hypothesis that there is a source of certain types of daggers somewhere in the space between central Syria (not the main cities), South Western Iraq and Eastern Jordan and it influenced daggers from Iraq, Palestine and Syria. After all, the states in the region as known to us are post WWI creations and did not mean much in the Ottoman era, especially outside urbanized areas. I can see that the blade is indeed wootz and will post pics when I have cleaned and etched it.