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120mm howitzer casing question

What I think so far (limited by resolution and Ottoman being pretty difficult) between "brackets" is what I think I read:

1 - "10,5/18" --> shell case dimensions indeed match with Turkish Skoda 10,5 cm L/18 M1914.
2 - "howitzer 14 (very doubtful 4),194 (very doubtful 4)" --> shell case dimensions match with Turkish Krupp 12,2 cm L/14 M1909.
3 - "German howitzer 15/14" --> shell case dimensions match with Turkish Krupp 15 cm L/14 M1905.
4 - "howitzer 10,5/?????" --> shell case dimensions match with Turkish Krupp 10,5 cm L/15,5 M1898/1909.
5 - no text, not sure yet about shell case dimensions.
 
Updated translation of the Ottoman text on the image shared by AKON:

1 - Şekil-Skoda-kovani-2 unknown words-10,5 cm L/18 = Drawing of 10,5 cm L/18 Skoda shell case (2 unknown words). Fits with 105x178R116 for the 10,5 cm Skoda L/18 M1914/T.
2 - Şekil-obüsün-kovani-14,194 = Drawing of howitzer shell case, I think the 14 if for L/14 (Turkish used Krupp 12,2 cm L/14) but ,194 makes no sense to me. Fits with 127,5x159R137 12,2 cm for the Krupp L/14 M1909 howitzer.
3 - Şekil-obüsün-kovani-15 cm L/14 = Drawing of 15 cm L/14 howitzer shell case (indeed a known Turkish used Krupp 15 cm sFH05/T "kurz" export versus the "regular" 15 cm L/17 "lang" known as the German 15 cm sFH M1902 and M1913, shell case 156x113R170).
4 - Şekil-obüsün-kovani-10,5 cm-unknown = Drawing of 10,5 cm howitzer shell case (I have no idea what is written below 10,5). Fits with 110x92R121 shell case for the 10,5 cm Krupp lFH M1898/M1909.
5 - Indeed Krupp shell case 300, measuring 150x660R175. Unknown gun.

Any other views on this are welcome!
 
Because I do not have an "edit" button available: the unknown words for shell case #1 probably mean "short field howitzer". I think I really see "field" and "howitzer" (very compressed into each other and hand written and very low resolution image) but I can't make out "short" and it seems there is another word/letter that I can't explain.
 
Thanks a lot AKON, these images are going to be very useful! At first sight the German handwriting is a pretty good translation of the Ottoman text. I am thinking about somewhere this year to combine all my Ottoman translations in a small publication.

Although checking the downloaded files, they are very small and low resolution, this is going to be hard.
 
Hello,
interesting to see 10,5cm FH98-09 case with screw in primer (original german case had pressed in primer). Same modification apllied to german made 7,5cm M15 case (75x129) austro hungarian mountain gun, observed with Turks marking
 
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