Arabic speakers?

[samsamka]

Dear lazywebs,

Can anyone read this?

From Drop Box

It's inscribed on a signet ring that I bought in Jerusalem (this drawing is, of course, a mirror image of what's on the ring, since the writing in signet rings is always backwards - this is how it should the actual stamp should look). The vendor claimed it didn't actually say anything, but someone else who saw it said it did but that they didn't read Arabic well enough to read it. I am guessing it's just someone's name, or initials, but it would be cool to know.

(apologies if the letters are messed up somewhat - I couldn't get a good, clear photo of the actual stamp, so I had to copy it freehand)

edit: here's the actual ring, mirror-flipped in photoshop thanks to greyling!

From Israel 2009 #2

Comments

[allandaros.livejournal.com]

I can ask my dad to take a look; I can get haltingly through Arabic, but not in such a stylized fashion.

[flukycoda.livejournal.com]

hmm, if that's really arabic calligraphy it's pretty crappily written.

[greyling.livejournal.com]

It may be easier to take a picture of the ring itself and reverse it in photoshop (or paint, whatever)?

[sildra.livejournal.com]

Are you sure it's Arabic? If you rotate it counterclockwise by 135 degrees and assume it's Hebrew, you get lamed dalet bet? hey. Not sure what that would spell, though--my Hebrew is very, very limited.

[j-brisby.livejournal.com]

"My other ring is a diamond?"