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    Posted: 03-Feb-2007 at 09:22


When i did my walk in Acropolis i found behind Erehthion this inscription in Arab letters.This inscription was down near to some stairs.
Can somebody who knows Arab inform us what is telling about this epigraph?

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  Quote Zagros Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03-Feb-2007 at 09:42
OK. I think it is in Turkish.
 
goes like this, the first line:
 
Seen (or sheen) kaanaan (or kaanaal), the the necxt letter is an h and I can't make out the rest.
 
Second line I can only make out one word and i am not sure if it is right. Al qen or alqan.
 
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  Quote azimuth Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03-Feb-2007 at 10:15
hmmm not Arabic langugae
 
the first word in the first line is "Husain" which is a name  then " kulnarhan.." which i dont know what it means
 
the second  line isnt clear except a world like "alqadrah" which means power or ability.
 
 
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  Quote Zagros Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03-Feb-2007 at 10:40

Are you sure it is Hossein? I only see seyn/seen - the second word is definitely Kulnarhen, you're right.

Third word looks to start with "taashaa".
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  Quote azimuth Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03-Feb-2007 at 10:46
i think so,  there is  H before  Seen.
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  Quote Top Gun Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03-Feb-2007 at 11:38
they used the Acropolis once as a gunpowder storage
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  Quote Cyrus Shahmiri Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03-Feb-2007 at 12:57
I think the second line is the title of a king, I can see "Rafi' Ul-Qadr" which means "High Rank".
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  Quote DayI Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03-Feb-2007 at 13:02
so what does it mean?
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  Quote azimuth Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03-Feb-2007 at 13:12
Originally posted by Cyrus Shahmiri

I think the second line is the title of a king, I can see "Rafi' Ul-Qadr" which means "High Rank".
 
oh yes  Rafi al qadr wa alm.. ( must be maqam)
 
so it must be someone called Husain in the first line and his title in the second line
 
 
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  Quote Zagros Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03-Feb-2007 at 13:27
So...

Hussein Kulnarhan Tashani
Rafi al qadr wa alm

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  Quote azimuth Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03-Feb-2007 at 14:19
the picture doesnt cover the whole sentence thats why it doesnt make much sense.
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  Quote Antioxos Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03-Feb-2007 at 15:10
http://img211.imageshack.us/my.php?image=917953954972957945026xy3.jpg]


Well guys this the original photo the previous one was cut off to become less than 50 kb and with  Azimuth help  i upload the photo to image shack.

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  Quote azimuth Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 04-Feb-2007 at 05:57

thanks antioxos but its hard to figure out what it says, i can see letters and some words but cant make a sentence really, if it was in arabic language i may figure out the sentence from some words but this seem turkish.

so far first line  "bkhtiar tahseen klnarhy.. ash." looks like a name.

second line  " taala bubanader rafee alqadr wa alm.." again a name and title.
 
 
 
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  Quote akritas Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 04-Feb-2007 at 07:00
Also I beleive that is Turkish text with Arabic letters.We must not forget that during Ottoman era Acropolis and specially Parthenon was transformed in Muslim mosque.
 
Antiohos amazing picture!!!!
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