To: SunkenCiv; martin_fierro; Ezekiel; Constitution Day; aculeus; Billthedrill
... the forgers 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
To: dighton
It’s real, it has to be. The date on it says “1700 B.C.”
To: dighton
:’) 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
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