Please help translate this (Arabic?) inscription

Aleksey G. · 22nd November 2010, 02:30 PM

I definetely second the Bhutanese part. A good example of the bhutanese dagger with silver mounts. Sorry cant help on the translation. Sometimes these have very nice laminations in the blade. maybe you should try to work the blade a little, see if anything pops up.

laEspadaAncha · 22nd November 2010, 06:03 PM

Thank you both Gene & Aleksey. I gave those Tibetan numerals a look, but am unable to make heads or tails out of the inscription...

The one question I would have is the length of the inscription, which if indeed Tibetan would appear to short to translate to anything other than one or two numerals. The shape and general appearance of the characters do seem to bare resemblance to the script, but also look somewhat similar to the (is it Lepcha?) script for which a Tibetan translation is given at that link.

Either way, given the frequent appearance of archaic and/or colloquial scripts and/or dialects, I'm guessing a translation may be too much to hope for.

22nd November 2010, 02:30 PM	#1
Aleksey G. Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 70	I definetely second the Bhutanese part. A good example of the bhutanese dagger with silver mounts. Sorry cant help on the translation. Sometimes these have very nice laminations in the blade. maybe you should try to work the blade a little, see if anything pops up.

22nd November 2010, 06:03 PM	#2
laEspadaAncha Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 608	Thank you both Gene & Aleksey. I gave those Tibetan numerals a look, but am unable to make heads or tails out of the inscription... The one question I would have is the length of the inscription, which if indeed Tibetan would appear to short to translate to anything other than one or two numerals. The shape and general appearance of the characters do seem to bare resemblance to the script, but also look somewhat similar to the (is it Lepcha?) script for which a Tibetan translation is given at that link. Either way, given the frequent appearance of archaic and/or colloquial scripts and/or dialects, I'm guessing a translation may be too much to hope for.