It's the "joining the dots" effect of the optical recognition system in the human brain. The ability to recognize a shape from fragments sometimes leads to the erroneous interpretation of fragments...
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It's the "joining the dots" effect of the optical recognition system in the human brain. The ability to recognize a shape from fragments sometimes leads to the erroneous interpretation of fragments...
... Well, did you look at what I mentioned?
About 2cm from the bottom of your photo in Post #15, at about the same level as the nipple boss.
It was a serious suggestion.
...anyway, I think we're talking slightly at cross-purposes here!
The "sort-of-kind-of-Arabic-ish-script" is that within the "tombstone" mark right in the center of our photo. That would be the...
That's a tough one. The first letter (i,e the rightmost one!) looks like the sound "9ayn".
The final letter (the leftmost one!) looks like "mim".
The problem with the middle letter is that the...
There is a technique called "reflectance transformation imaging" that is used by archaeologists to bring up old inscriptions. YouTube has some examples. For many of the inquiries we get here, it...
If you are referring to the faint marks that can be seen about 1 cm below the "3 short rivets" decoration, then I agree. A curved script line beneath an almost scrubbed-out emblem.
(...which is carried over to the bottom of the barrel, interesting as you can't see it...)
That makes it less likely to be decoration, anf more likely to be structure, i.e. Damascus.
The barrel...