"Seal" is kufic Arabic, and "Stone" is an ordinary monumental Arabic
that could come from anywhere (and could be just about any Muslim
language, if it came from some very out-of-the-way place!).

BTW could someone tell us what this list is? Bill Bright and I received
invitations to participate.

I see that one needs to join egroups in order to access the websites,
and I don't care to do that, since joining such a group inevitably
results in increased spam.

Marco.Cimarosti@... wrote:

>
>
> Can anyone identify the scripts on these two pictures?
>
> A guy sent them to me more than a year ago, asking me (!) to identify the
> scripts.
>
> I looked up some books, and ventured to replay that <Stone.jpg> (a carved
> stone bough "somewhere in Asia") could have been an early form of Arabic,
> and that <Seal.jpg> (a metal piece of a book cover) could have been
> Nestorian, or some other Asian script of Aramaic ascent...
>
> That guy swallowed my haphazard explanations with a "thanks"... how big a
> blunder did I make, actually?
>
> Thanks.
> _ Marco
>
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>
> Name: Seal.jpg
> Part 1.2 Type: JPEG Image (image/jpeg)
> Encoding: base64
>
> Name: Stone.jpg
> Part 1.3 Type: JPEG Image (image/jpeg)
> Encoding: base64

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