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Zifir · 4th August 2006, 02:42 PM

I am definitely not an expert in paleography. Yet I can share a few points which attracted my uneducated gaze about the inscriptions.

The second inscription is a very nice nesih and it is possible to see documents, texts written in nesih for the early fifteenth century. Yet, the first one is a very indecisive script. It starts as a rika and ends with like nesih. Rika is a script which was widely used from the 18th century to the end of the empire.

The word "kurtar (meaning to save, protect)" is also problematic since kurtar is written with 'te' not with 'tı' in Ottoman Turkish. We cannot expect from swordmakers to be highly literate persons and punctual about the spelling, but the person who wrote the script seemed to me following the turkish wovel harmony and assumed that kurtar should be written with a "tı".

4th August 2006, 02:42 PM	#6
Zifir Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Istanbul Posts: 228	I am definitely not an expert in paleography. Yet I can share a few points which attracted my uneducated gaze about the inscriptions. The second inscription is a very nice nesih and it is possible to see documents, texts written in nesih for the early fifteenth century. Yet, the first one is a very indecisive script. It starts as a rika and ends with like nesih. Rika is a script which was widely used from the 18th century to the end of the empire. The word "kurtar (meaning to save, protect)" is also problematic since kurtar is written with 'te' not with 'tı' in Ottoman Turkish. We cannot expect from swordmakers to be highly literate persons and punctual about the spelling, but the person who wrote the script seemed to me following the turkish wovel harmony and assumed that kurtar should be written with a "tı".