HI Ibrahiim al Balooshi,
Unfortunately I do not know where the sword has been found, but this blade has always intrigued me, inlaid with gold dots and strange naskhi script with a deep meaning.
The blade has been severly cleaned but there are still remnants of flint hard goethide. This layer of goethide proofs that it must have been a waterfound but also that it must be old, I think it is 14thC.
at another forum, sorry
, somebody of Baghrain made out following;
Originally Posted by e.a.Zainal
Numbers are
2579 2572 2582
2581 2578 2576
2579 2583 2577
i think it's like a magical numbers that help the user for some think like a magic script
اللهم لاذة الله
عين سبيق ودت الله
Oh God that Take you to the God
An eye faster than Kindness of God
that what i understand from the Writing
but the Second line I'm not sour about it
it may my translatiuon is meaning defrint that what it mean becuse the Scipt Mening is very deep
The Falchion or Malchus, the rarest medieval sword is a beautiful thread, there is a illustration posted with apparently a similar dot inlay.
best,