yatagan inscription for translation

Zifir · 14th July 2008, 03:20 PM

hi,

the first script is:

Ya Muhammed kıl şefaat ümmetindendir (O Muhammed! Intercede on the day of Judgement on the behalf of ....... who is one of your Ummah (community of believers) -usually there comes the name of the owner after "ümmetindendir" but in this one we don't have it. Yet we get the name from the second script:

Amel-i Abdullah sahib Hasan Beşe (the title "beşe" donates that he was a janissary)

Our swordmaker, Abdullah, (if he was the one who wrote the inscription) was not much a literate person as it is clear from his spelling of "ummah" so Dom still did a great job

14th July 2008, 03:20 PM	#9
Zifir Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Istanbul Posts: 228	hi, the first script is: Ya Muhammed kıl şefaat ümmetindendir (O Muhammed! Intercede on the day of Judgement on the behalf of ....... who is one of your Ummah (community of believers) -usually there comes the name of the owner after "ümmetindendir" but in this one we don't have it. Yet we get the name from the second script: Amel-i Abdullah sahib Hasan Beşe (the title "beşe" donates that he was a janissary) Our swordmaker, Abdullah, (if he was the one who wrote the inscription) was not much a literate person as it is clear from his spelling of "ummah" so Dom still did a great job