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			This is an amazing spear, surely the largest and longest I have seen and a fantastic find - and so wonderfully complete! 
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
	I will be interested to learn if the inscription can be deciphered. Hopefully there is some useful information there, but I had the thought - without the expertise to back it up - that these engravings might possibly also be 'nonsense' Arabic such as was sometimes seen in European Renaissance arms.  | 
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