Hi, the word written on the disk is "muhammad". That's the name of the prophet. You read the first two letters correct . The third letter is a 'miim' (not laam) followed by a 'daal'. I'm not an expert in calligraphy, but this looks like the THULUTH font, and the yellow parts are decorations. The way the name is written is very common on plates, disks, etc.. here, in Egypt. Regards, Iman Saad Arabic Language Institute American Univeristy in Cairo
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 2:30 AM Subject: An Azeri disk > Hello all. > > I've got a small clay disc in Arabic script from Azerbaijan. I can't > read it. I've tried to analyze the script, and if you want to help me > puzzle it out, see http://www.evertype.com/standards/Arab/disc.html > > There are things on it which don't look like things I've seen in > Unicode anyway. > -- > Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com >
