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Can You Identify This Mysterious Old Writing?

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Re: Can You Identify This Mysterious Old Writing?

#61

I thought the responses here might be interesting but they boil down to "I've seen the Cyrillic script once, so I'm going to suggest that."

Humans are pattern recognizers... what did you expect?

It's doesn't look like Cyrillic, or Georgian, or Armenian, or Hebrew, or almost any of the ideas proposed by people who have seen those scripts once or twice in passing.

Re: Can You Identify This Mysterious Old Writing?

#62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My impression was Russian/Georgian or similar too, but slanted wrong. Perhaps mirrored?

> Russian/Georgian Looks a bit French/Korean to me.

Honestly, with the quality of the pictures, it could be written in cursive French and I wouldn't be able to tell (I'm native French)

They have to post high resolution images.

Re: Can You Identify This Mysterious Old Writing?

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Unfortunately, all I get when I navigate to the URL is "Access Denied". It's a pity because at the rate we're going we'll have guessed most the known scripts pretty soon.

My own guess, sight unseen, is "Bird-worm seal script"... purely because that was the answer the last time I saw this question.

Re: Can You Identify This Mysterious Old Writing?

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post #63

Unfortunately, all I get when I navigate to the URL is "Access Denied". It's a pity because at the rate we're going we'll have guessed most the known scripts pretty soon. My own guess, sight unseen, is "Bird-worm seal script"... purely because that was the answer the last time I saw this question.

It’s geo locked. I had to VPN via US server.

Re: Can You Identify This Mysterious Old Writing?

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(11:38 GMT) I'm filing a guess of a tourist copy of the stories of Amir Hamzah, in early 20th century handwritten Javanese. I believe the image needs to be rotated/flipped so the hole in the paper is in the top left quadrant. Will post a reference when I settle on one.

Re: Can You Identify This Mysterious Old Writing?

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post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Left-handed for those that need clarification. :)

I am related to a left-hander who hates being a synonym for evildoing, so now it sticks out to me when people use it that way :p

...when do people use it that way? "Sinister" in English has just the one meaning; the sense of "left" is restricted to Latin.

And even there, "left" is a pretty different concept from "left-handed".

On a different note, French for left is "gauche".

Re: Can You Identify This Mysterious Old Writing?

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Here are the direct links to the not very high resolution photographs from the article: [0] https://media.tegna-media.com/assets/WNEP/images/323b9a63-45... [1] https://media.tegna-media.com/assets/WNEP/images/bdb99b5f-a4...

Do these photos and the way they were shown in the news not look upside down to anyone else?

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