Could anybody please tell what are the vertical inscriptions to the right and left of the obverse of this nice Zangids of Mosul Nur al-Din Arslan Shah's dirham?
Could anybody please tell what are the vertical inscriptions to the right and left of the obverse of this nice Zangids of Mosul Nur al-Din Arslan Shah's dirham?
its the mint and the year (if there is one). so it should say something along the lines of madinat nisibin which is where it was minted
Could anybody please tell what are the vertical inscriptions to the right and left of the obverse of this nice Zangids of Mosul Nur al-Din Arslan Shah's dirham?
edit: this is the reverse not the obverse
on the numista page for this, it says the left is ATABEG ARSLAN and the right is IBN MAWDUD
IBN MAWDUD means ‘son of mawdud’, usually with arabic names its a given name followed by two patronymics, so something like ‘john, son of robert, son of george’. in this case, mawdud is his grandfather. atabeg is a title for a “governor of a nation or province who was subordinate to a monarch”
Yes, I of course studied the corresponding Numista page (as well as all the five samples available on zeno.ru website) before posting my question, and am aware of the meaning of all inscriptions on the text side of the coin...
I also seem to know what is the upper inscription on the portrait side -- it is the date : “sinnat ...[missing Arabic text for Five Hundred Ninety] o arba' “ – ”year 594”. (Please correct me somebody if I am mistaken somewhere...)
What I still don't know is what is written vertically to the left and right of the portrait -- literally, i.e. where are the words "madinat' and 'Nisibin' (if any) there and what is the other remaining word(-s) of the rebus. :)
What I actually mean by stating my question in such a formal/technical way, is: can it be a mint other than Nisibin, and if no -- where is the exact reference to it in the disscussed inscriptions of this concrete coin?
What I actually mean by stating my question in such a formal/technical way, is: can it be a mint other than Nisibin, and if no -- where is the exact reference to it in the disscussed inscriptions of this concrete coin?
im not an expert on these dirhams and my arabic reading skills are pretty bad. sorry though
