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Unknown Ancient Language Found on Clay Tablet
Sci-News ^ | Fri, May 11th, 2012 | Enrico de Lazaro

Posted on 05/12/2012 11:32:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

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Detail from the tablet found at Ziyaret Tepe. Inscribed with Cuneiform characters, the tablet consists of a list of women's names, many of which appear to be from a previously unknown language (John MacGinnis)

Unknown Ancient Language Found on Clay Tablet

1 posted on 05/12/2012 11:32:41 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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Evidence for a Peripheral Language in a Neo-Assyrian Tablet
from the Governor’s Palace in Tushan
John MacGinnis
Journal of Near Eastern Studies
Vol. 71, No. 1 (April 2012), pp. 13-20
Published by: The University of Chicago Press
Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664450

Ancient Tablets Decoded; Shed Light on Assyrian Empire
National Geographic News | December 9, 2009 | Brian Handwerk
Posted on 12/11/2009 4:28:20 AM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2405265/posts


2 posted on 05/12/2012 11:34:01 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

Ebonics??


3 posted on 05/12/2012 11:35:17 AM PDT by duckman (Go Newt...)
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To: SunkenCiv
Unknown Ancient Language Found on Clay Tablet

Only a small part of the tablet has been decoded. It seems to be some sort of warning.

It reads: "B*W*RE*HI*L*RY"


5 posted on 05/12/2012 11:43:01 AM PDT by Talisker (He who commands, must obey.)
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To: duckman

Obambi’s BC.....?


6 posted on 05/12/2012 11:43:35 AM PDT by spokeshave (If Obama is Lenin....who are Trotsky and Stalin...?)
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To: Renfield; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...

 GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother & Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thanks Renfield. To all, pay no attention to some of what's above this message.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.


7 posted on 05/12/2012 11:43:56 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

Maybe........ maybe not.


8 posted on 05/12/2012 11:44:36 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: SunkenCiv

Gibberish possibly ?


9 posted on 05/12/2012 11:44:36 AM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: spokeshave

Looks like a homework assignment at the scurging and flaying school.....testing out on a clay model of the torso.


10 posted on 05/12/2012 11:45:48 AM PDT by spokeshave (If Obama is Lenin....who are Trotsky and Stalin...?)
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To: Talisker

LOL. I don’t know, I read B*W*R*E O*B*M*A


11 posted on 05/12/2012 11:46:39 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Some day our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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To: SunkenCiv

Roster from an all girls school ?


12 posted on 05/12/2012 11:48:10 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: Talisker; spokeshave

:’D


13 posted on 05/12/2012 11:50:40 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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14 posted on 05/12/2012 11:53:15 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: Ditter; Squantos

Most cuneiform texts can be pronounced, which made it handy for adaptation for use with unrelated languages, even from different families. That’s how the Indo-European languages found recorded in cuneiform in the Hattusas site (non-IE were also found) were cracked by Emil Forrer.

http://www.ancientscripts.com/cuneiform.html

[snip] The term “cuneiform” is very deceptive, in that it tricks people into thinking that it’s some type of writing system. The truth is that cuneiform denotes not one but several kinds of writing systems, including logosyllabic, syllabic, and alphabetic scripts. [/snip]

http://www.ancientscripts.com/akkadian.html


15 posted on 05/12/2012 11:57:59 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: UCANSEE2

Slave list, probably.


16 posted on 05/12/2012 11:58:31 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Talisker
tabletidentifier.com shows it as an over-the-counter antihistamine.
17 posted on 05/12/2012 12:00:05 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: UCANSEE2

More than one scholar has a *stake* in the outcome. [/rimshot!]


18 posted on 05/12/2012 12:01:11 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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It sais...

“It’s all Bush’s Fault”


19 posted on 05/12/2012 12:03:40 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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The Pre-history of the Armenian People
The History of the Armenian Highlands in the Middle Bronze and Early Iron Ages

by I. M. Diakonoff
[snip] Shubria, which was still independent, was a thorn in the flesh of the Assyrians. Tactfully avoiding taking sides in its politics between Urartu and Assyria, it provided refuge in its [91] inaccessible mountains to the freemen trying to evade their obligatory community services, the slaves who were fleeing from either empire, and sometimes even to the rebels from among the aristocracy. In order to end this situation (265) and taking advantage of the peace which had been established with the Cimmerians and Urartu, Esarhaddon undertook a decisive campaign against Shubria in 673 B.C., which is very vividly depicted by his court scribe in a detailed war report--"Letter to the god Assur " (266). Besieged in the city of Uppumu, the Shubrians tried in vain to destroy with burning oil the Assyrian siege works and mechanical contrivances; the Assyrian king finally took Uppumu, Qullimeri, and other Shubrian fortresses. The king of Shubria was deposed, the old Hurrian dynasty was brought to an end (267), and the country itself was turned into two Assyrian provinces (Uppumu and Qullimeri). Esarhaddon recruited some of the inhabitants into his own army; others he sent into slavery, giving them to his palace household, to temples, and to private citizens of the privileged cities, while the fugitive Assyrians and Urartians he returned (having fIrst disfigured them) to their masters. Apparently Shubria was then resettled by captives from regions west of the Upper Euphrates. [/snip]

20 posted on 05/12/2012 12:05:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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