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To: SunkenCiv; martin_fierro; Ezekiel; Constitution Day; aculeus; Billthedrill
... the forger’s error in creating a terracotta “pancake” with a cleanly cut edge.

Wanted, pseudo-antique bunnies.

5 posted on 07/30/2008 11:09:15 PM PDT by dighton
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To: dighton

It’s real, it has to be. The date on it says “1700 B.C.”


6 posted on 07/30/2008 11:17:16 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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:’) It’s a unique document; the characters on the disk are generally accepted to have been stamped into the clay using dies (the earliest known moveable type), and it is likely to have been an import (or a fake) due to the fact that is unique. The characters on the disk appear to be from Anatolia.


7 posted on 07/30/2008 11:18:07 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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