This is thuluth script which was placed on Sudanese weapons during the rule of the Caliph in the Mahdiyya post 1885, and pre Omdurman (1898). These inscriptions were acid etched invocations and Quranic phrases which were placed in repetition in most cases on various tribal edged weapons. There were countless examples of these weapons not only from the field at Omdurman, but throughout these areas in these times.
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