Huck said:
Actually it would be nice to see all the deck (if it's not too much for you).
Dummett noted, that the cards were not all of one deck only ... to understand his analysis it's necessary to know, what's a reconstruction and what's original.
Perhaps the booklet has additional or more uptodate information?
I'm a bit hesitant about posting scans of all the cards in the deck, for copyright reasons. I can post some more sample scans, but due to my schedule may not have time to get to that until later in April.
The pack of cards of the Topkapu Museum consists of 47 cards.
The published deck from Aurelia Books/Carta Mundi has 56 cards (4 x 14).
There are 14 cards per suit, the numbers are 1 to 10 and there are 4 court cards, i.e.:
almalik, the king
annaib, the lieutenant
annaib attani, the second lieutenant
ahad alarkan mailk al, one of the assistants of the king (aide)
Per the booklet that came with the deck, the images used in the deck came from 3 separate series of cards, as well as reconstructed cards to fill in the gaps. Apparently there is not a complete deck yet found.
The cards in the three series are as follows:
Series 1:
Cards decorated with a slanting Greek frieze at the top and inscriptions; those at the top occur on all the cards and include aphorisms, those at the bottom name the figure; a curved frieze fills the top corners; fine flower designs fill the area around these figures.
Series 1 cards:
Sticks: Lieutenant, 2nd Lieutenant, Aide
Cups: Lieutenant, 2nd Lieutenant, Aide
Coins: King, Lieutenant, 2, 3
Swords: King, Lieutenant, 8
Series 2:
Cards with a much rougher decoration than those of the first series, the top decoration is no longer a frieze, but a simple line; inscription at the top (and the bottom?).
Series 2 cards:
Sticks: 10
Coins: 2nd Lieutenant
Swords: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Series 3:
Cards without any inscription, but with the same top curve as series 1, whereby however more room is open; as a result the decoration not only has two corner designs, but also a central design; the figures are strongly reminiscent of series 1; one could even conclude that they are identical, if this series had not included at least one number card (the 8 of swords) with an inscription at the top, which is not the case with series 1; this series has certainly served as a model for series 2 (see e.g., the bottom triangle of the swords.
Series 3 cards:
Sticks: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Cups: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Coins: 5, 7, 8, 9
Swords: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Reconstructed cards:
Because of the large number of court cards of series 1, they were used to complete them with the available data: the missing texts were adopted from unused cards; if they were not texts of the cards concerned, at least they were texts of existing cards and therefore authentic card inscriptions. The designs were also taken from existing cards. For the figure cards they used the almost complete series 3, which has a strong affinity with series 1; the missing ones were modeled on elements found elsewhere in the series.
Reconstructed cards:
Sticks: King, 2nd Lieutenant, 1, 2, 3
Cups: King
Coins: 2nd Lieutenant, Aide, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 10
Swords: 2nd Lieutenant, Aide, 2, 8, 9, 10