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Arabic STAMP on tulwar blade

24th March 2009, 08:07 AM

kronckew

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Quote:

Originally Posted by stephen wood

... the wavy lines couldn't be a date could they? 1333 AH (1915 Gregorian approx.) ?

arabic numbers are written left to right so it would read 3331

arabic text is written right to left.

made it difficult to come up with an arabic word processer

of course if the stamper was illiterate in arabic...

a chart:

note the devanagari. edited: they write no's from left to right...

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