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29th March 2008, 01:18 AM | #1 |
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Nimcha with markings
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ayphotohosting No argument here: pretty . The seller states that the blade is local. -What do we know about blade manufacture in Maghreb? -What is on the stamp? A date? I seem to see numerals but can't make sense out of them. -The blade sports Indian Ricasso. Was it usual on Maghrebi blades? I have several, but don't recall seeing this feature. One side of the blade is stamped Zaoue. I found one ( two, as a matter of fact) in the discussion here: http://www.mlagb.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/Y...=1116966424/10 But both were from Marseille, France. France, Morocco.... Ze plot sickens! |
29th March 2008, 07:48 AM | #2 |
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the oval 'with arabic inscription' looks more like a stylized wolf stamp with a couple of decorative flanker symbols at the bottom, at the top 'Zivia' which can mean 'wolf' in hebrew.
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maybe the mfg/stamper was not hebrew but liked the name. maybe it was transliterated during the attempts at romanizing yiddish in the 16th/17th centuries. ah, found one: Meaning of name: zivia another which says deer or wolf:Linky interesting that zeva is geek for sword per that link.... looks like it could mean either or just about anything else too as it's a bit crudely stamped/cut. we need an arabic scholar's view at this. Last edited by kronckew; 29th March 2008 at 05:57 PM. |
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30th March 2008, 03:33 AM | #5 |
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I have no idea what you all are talking about I see numbers = 181 (could be 1181= 18th century to lazy to do the math right now)and a few arabic characters A Haa and Raa. Worn caligraphy is hard to read but I do not see any hebrew or wolf head. Where do you see zivia? Arabic does not have a v symbol untill very recently
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30th March 2008, 03:53 AM | #6 |
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Fully agree.
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