Re: Can anybody identify this script?


"Bart Mathias" <mathias@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:af2dnUm8wJxSGn_ZnZ2dnUVZ_rudnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Peter T. Daniels wrote:
Brian wrote:

Hi,

Can anybody identify or translate this script on a ring we have? It
looks Asian to me, but I'm really not sure!

http://www.syrtis.demon.co.uk/images/ring.png


An offhand guess would be a cursive variety of Chinese; but it's a
signet ring; in order to read it properly, you must impress it in wax
(or some suitable substitute, like modeling clay), and read the
impression.

The first and third characters (reading right to left) don't look particularly cursive. The third one seems not exactly "moon," but more "moon" than "eye." (I tend to see "base," or the "pan" of "Japan" in the first one.

Characters 2 and 4, which seem to be identical, look like phony baloney to me (I rewrote them backwards); I hope we get some answers from the Chinese members of this group.

Bart Mathias

My gut feeling on first seeing it, is _gibberish_. The eye/moon thingy in the second from the left is at odds with the other character flourishes.

Note too that the first from the left and third look almost the same with the third without that seemingly striking straight line cut.


Dyl.

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