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Mercenary · 20th March 2021, 05:00 PM

I am not an expert in reading the inscriptions, but if no one is ready to reply, I can try (due to despair) to suggest my own explanation, not the reading, because the inscription perhaps cannot be read in the usual way.
"VARAK MATSEE" ~ "made from foil" or more precisely "by 'varak' method". This refers to gold foil, or rather this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vark

On such items, often made for travelers, there are sometimes such meaningless inscriptions like "this inscription is made of gold".

This is just my guess. I am not able to accurately read this inscription, sorry...

20th March 2021, 05:00 PM	#2
Mercenary Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 421	I am not an expert in reading the inscriptions, but if no one is ready to reply, I can try (due to despair) to suggest my own explanation, not the reading, because the inscription perhaps cannot be read in the usual way. "VARAK MATSEE" ~ "made from foil" or more precisely "by 'varak' method". This refers to gold foil, or rather this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vark On such items, often made for travelers, there are sometimes such meaningless inscriptions like "this inscription is made of gold". This is just my guess. I am not able to accurately read this inscription, sorry...