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Old 22nd November 2011, 01:45 PM   #1
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...what does that last line mean?.
it's the "Shahada"
لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله (lā ʾilāha ʾillallāh, Muḥammad rasūlu-llāh) (in Arabic)
There is no god but God, and Muhammad is the messenger of God. (in English)
declaration of Islamic faith

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Old 22nd November 2011, 02:01 PM   #2
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... thanks Dom
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Old 22nd November 2011, 04:34 PM   #3
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Do these marks look akin to the blade above?
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Old 22nd November 2011, 04:42 PM   #4
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Tell me more! Let's see the whole blade...
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Old 22nd November 2011, 05:12 PM   #5
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Pictures are too big to upload here, so here're the links -
http://antiquearmsforum.com/forum/do...=203&mode=view
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Old 22nd November 2011, 05:19 PM   #6
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...thank you very much.

Where is it from? Eastern Europe perhaps? Is the writing Georgian?
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Old 22nd November 2011, 06:53 PM   #7
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I don't know what the writing means. Until I saw your sword, I thought it was a type of talismanic script.
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Old 22nd November 2011, 07:02 PM   #8
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Here you go.
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Old 22nd November 2011, 09:50 PM   #9
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Dmitry and others, please notice that inscriptions on blades are read from the back of the blade and not from the sharp side of the blade.
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