Hi Guys
I've been kicking this about with some fellow students of Arabic. We agree this is very hard to read because it's a very unusual script between the Kufic and Maghribi calligraphy styles.
We now read it as Sayd Al Harithiya Al Malaki, which in itself is odd because it should be Al Sayd or A'sayd. As established that mean Royal Harithiya Hunt. Sayd does not really have the same meaning as Hunt in old fashioned English in that it means the act of hunting rather than a group who go hunting together.
We think it was written out by native English speaker and then, given the Firmin back mark, the die/mold was cut by a non-Arab speaker .
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