yataghan with anchor(?) for translation

Zifir · 19th November 2011, 08:07 PM

Hi Jim,
I think Dom meant the language is not Arabic although the script is. I can clearly make the tuğra out, it is in the usual shape of sahib (the owner), but I am not sure what is written inside, at first I tend to read it as Dom did, but then there is a few characters which does not fit. I am at loss for the rest of the inscription, since some parts of it are erased and the characters are somehow different than the ones I used to read, so I cannot be sure about the language. Also the beginning of the inscription seems to be lost under the remade handle if I don't see it wrong from the picture.

19th November 2011, 08:07 PM	#5
Zifir Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Istanbul Posts: 228	Hi Jim, I think Dom meant the language is not Arabic although the script is. I can clearly make the tuğra out, it is in the usual shape of sahib (the owner), but I am not sure what is written inside, at first I tend to read it as Dom did, but then there is a few characters which does not fit. I am at loss for the rest of the inscription, since some parts of it are erased and the characters are somehow different than the ones I used to read, so I cannot be sure about the language. Also the beginning of the inscription seems to be lost under the remade handle if I don't see it wrong from the picture.