Re: Can anybody identify this script?

Bart Mathias <mathias@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:af2dnUm8wJxSGn_ZnZ2dnUVZ_rudnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

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 impression is that from the way the pen strokes go (flip and rotate
the picture), it should be read vertically. Not that I recognise any
words, although I suspect there might be only two words (if you see the
top one as the grass radical, i.e. there are only two vertical strokes
instead of four).
.

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