Good day everyone, Can you all please help me ID the type of "script" on this thick and heavy silver bracelet? My thoughts were 'Runes' given the 'Hooked-X' & 'Hourglass-shaped' symbol, but don't believe that's correct. Also, not sure if I have them pictured in the correct orientation. Can you all please help? Thanks in advance for your time!
They don't look like any real-world script with which I am familiar. Not Germanic runes, which are a bit simpler. Not Glagolitic script. The Vai script has a similar level of complexity, but the characters don't match at all. I'm going to go with very likely just made-up artistic designs.
I appreciate your reply and thoughts.....especially, for providing me with another avenue to explore/research (Vai). Hadn't thought of traveling through African scripts. The one thing I can't accept (with all due respect) is the characters being of a made-up artistic design of the maker. My gut just tells me these are "legit script" of some type, but haven't located who/where. I mean..... I know at least 2 of the 6 are actual characters/symbols used in many different cultures. Why would the artist/maker use 2 legit symbols, but the others, he/she just decided to invent? Just doesn't make any sense to me. I'm referring to the "Hooked-X & Hourglass with Line". In Runes I believe it's (Hooked-X) a, Jumis and the link below shows the Hourglass with Line or Double-Triangle Symbol used in many cultures. Link: https://hillerdrygoods.com/blogs/news/the-leone-blanket-story
Well, it will certainly be interesting to see if you are right. I'd love to learn what script they are from if they are from if it's from a real writing system. It's pretty much impossible for someone to rule out that they could be from a less-known real script somewhere. But I've learned a little about synthetic scripts as a hobby, and they don't ring a bell with me. Have you tried Unicode character recognition? Here's one site where you can draw a glyph and it will match it with multiple Unicode alphabets/scripts. It doesn't work with Chinese/Japanese characters, but there are other places where you can do character recognition for those, such as MBDG. Anyway, your symbols aren't Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Khitan/Mongolian/Jurchen/Manchu. I tried a sloppy hiragana "あ" (a) as a test and it worked great. Tried some of the symbols on your bracelet with no promising hits so far.
