Arabic insription on yataghan - translation requested

Rivkin · 27th July 2006, 03:30 PM

As one of the examples of dragon motiff I would use so called dragon rugs. While it is not nessesaraly has the same origin for the motiff as weapons, its story is quite interesting - supposedly it started with armenians copying chinese motiffs via the silk road in as early as 15th century; with the spread of armenians dragon rugs penetrate Persia; as with all caucasian carpets originally detailed image of dragon eventeually becomes highly stylized and abstract. So the eastern origin is quite likely ?

Now, rugs is even more nationalistic field than weapons, so you can find alternative explanations, such as these dragons being reflections of swastikas of ancient hurro, urartu or hittite armenians (clue - urartu and hurrian are not even indo european languages, unlike armenian).

But I do believe that this might be a dolphin.

27th July 2006, 03:30 PM	#32
Rivkin Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 655	As one of the examples of dragon motiff I would use so called dragon rugs. While it is not nessesaraly has the same origin for the motiff as weapons, its story is quite interesting - supposedly it started with armenians copying chinese motiffs via the silk road in as early as 15th century; with the spread of armenians dragon rugs penetrate Persia; as with all caucasian carpets originally detailed image of dragon eventeually becomes highly stylized and abstract. So the eastern origin is quite likely ? Now, rugs is even more nationalistic field than weapons, so you can find alternative explanations, such as these dragons being reflections of swastikas of ancient hurro, urartu or hittite armenians (clue - urartu and hurrian are not even indo european languages, unlike armenian). But I do believe that this might be a dolphin. Last edited by Rivkin; 27th July 2006 at 04:34 PM.