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Old 20th January 2024, 12:50 PM   #1
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Default Kindjal Arabic(?) translation help

dear members,

I got this basic kindjal which has what seems an arabic inscription. Some of the characters look like numbers to me but I don't understand why these are being mixed with letters and how to read this.

If it were only four numbers it would be easy to conclude a year, but in this case...

Can someone clarify what is written, are the numbers and letters meant as two different lines or am I on a completely wrong track?

Many thanks in advance,
Eric.
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Old 20th January 2024, 06:16 PM   #2
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I'll give it a try (disclaimer: No native speaker or reader)

عمل شافی ۱۳۳۰ - amal-e Shāfi 1330
Work of Shāfi and the numbers read as an al hijri date would correspond to 1911 to 1912.
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Old 21st January 2024, 10:38 AM   #3
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Thanks, of course you are right about 1330 instead of 1335, I should have known 5 is a circle and a dot is 0
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