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Author Topic: Ring, Islamic, Sorcerers, Magic Square?  (Read 776 times)

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Offline Mayadigger

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Ring, Islamic, Sorcerers, Magic Square?
« on: February 22, 2022, 05:53:38 pm »
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Copper Alloy; 10.4gm Bezel 21mm x 19mm ca. 10th Century AD or later?

Nine blocks of mystic symbols in three rows within a rectangular bezel decorated with Arabic inscriptions about...?
Uncertain further mystic symbology to either side of the band below the bezel.

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Re: Ring, Islamic, Sorcerers, Magic Square?
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2022, 07:42:56 pm »
While it is popular to label such things as "sorcerer's" it is more likely that they were used as mystical or apotropaic items by a much wider segment of society.  In the same way that wearing a hand anor eye of Fatima doesn't make one a mystic or witch and having a tarot deck doesn't mean one is a professional psychic.

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Re: Ring, Islamic, Sorcerers, Magic Square?
« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2022, 07:13:08 am »
There was one tread with one silver ring similar like yours ,same arangement .That silver ring one friend translate it Ali ,Jihad ,Allah-yours I gues is something similar ,no magic or sorcerer here ))

 

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