More about the pen test, and one of the reasons it caught my attention...
I can't read Arabic, except for a few simple words, and I don't know the Arabic language (except for some of the words that are similar to Hebrew), but I believe the dot by the final letter (on the left) is to distinguish Fa from Kaf.
But oddly, the letter that vaguely resembles a 3 isn't an Arabic letter (at least I'm pretty sure it isn't). I notice he simplified it in the 4th and 6th examples so it almost looks like Hebrew Beth (B) or the medial form of Kaph, but Beth and Kaph don't usually have an extra indentation, so I'm not sure what that is.
The third letter (from the right), might be Waw or an oddly written Resh. It vaguely resembles a mirrored Latin "r".
Oddly the first and second letters are more similar to some of the old Indic scripts. Three was not usually written this way in the middle eastern languages, more often they used the runic-style 3 with the straight stem. But... eastern Arabic and western Indic scripts sometimes used this style of 3 (the one that the west eventually adapted).
But... it's probably not a number, more likely a letter.
Usually I can work out the characters even if it is a language that I don't know very well, but this one had me scratching my head. I couldn't tell if it was a combination of Arabic and Hebrew or Indic and Arabic or something else. It was probably added in the 15th century.
It might be necessary to know Middle Eastern languages to sort it out.
I can't read Arabic, except for a few simple words, and I don't know the Arabic language (except for some of the words that are similar to Hebrew), but I believe the dot by the final letter (on the left) is to distinguish Fa from Kaf.
But oddly, the letter that vaguely resembles a 3 isn't an Arabic letter (at least I'm pretty sure it isn't). I notice he simplified it in the 4th and 6th examples so it almost looks like Hebrew Beth (B) or the medial form of Kaph, but Beth and Kaph don't usually have an extra indentation, so I'm not sure what that is.
The third letter (from the right), might be Waw or an oddly written Resh. It vaguely resembles a mirrored Latin "r".
Oddly the first and second letters are more similar to some of the old Indic scripts. Three was not usually written this way in the middle eastern languages, more often they used the runic-style 3 with the straight stem. But... eastern Arabic and western Indic scripts sometimes used this style of 3 (the one that the west eventually adapted).
But... it's probably not a number, more likely a letter.
Usually I can work out the characters even if it is a language that I don't know very well, but this one had me scratching my head. I couldn't tell if it was a combination of Arabic and Hebrew or Indic and Arabic or something else. It was probably added in the 15th century.
It might be necessary to know Middle Eastern languages to sort it out.