Posted on 12/28/2014 11:18:54 AM PST by SunkenCiv
A new Lemnian inscription was discovered recently during excavation of an ancient sanctuary at Efestia on the island of Lemnos. The inscription was incised in two lines on the upper portion of a rectangular altar measuring 50 cm. in length and 13.05 cm. in height (see photograph below). The direction of writing is boustrophedon. The upper line reads from left-to-right, the lower line from right-to-left. The inscription has 26 letters plus punctuation marks in the form of three vertically-aligned points separating words. The transcription provided below is that given by de Simone (2009). The letter âi (= palatal sibilant) is a transcription of the Lemnian 4-bar sigma and the letter s (= dental or alveo-dental sibilant) of the Lemnian z-sign. Punctuation is indicated by a colon.
upper line: hktaonosi : heloke (L to R)
lower line: soromâi : aslaâi (R to L)
The inscription is a votive dedication offered to or, more likely, on behalf of hktaono-. hktaonosi is inflected in the pertinentive case. (Exactly how to treat the odd initial cluster hk- is not clear.) The suffix of the verb heloke matches up well with the Etruscan past tense suffix /ke/, e.g., turuce /turuke/ ‘offered’. For the construction compare Etruscan muluvanice + pertinentive...
Background information about the date of discovery and about the archaeological context in which the altar was recovered has not yet been published. The inscription is dated on paleographic grounds to the last half of the 6th century BCE, but the date must be considered provisional until archaeological reports appear in print.
Bibliography:
de Simone, Carlo. 2009. La nuova iscrizione tirsenica di Efestia. Tripodes 11.3-58.
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Beautiful! Thanks.
really nice. thank you.
(looks like a Pizza order...?)
Well, I excerpted the actual (slightly edited) HTML because it’s an extinct foreign language. :’)
Where Did The Etruscans Come From?
Etruscology website | June 2002 | Dieter H. Steinbauer
Posted on 08/06/2005 9:08:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1458504/posts
Wiki-wacky: Lemnian language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemnian_language
Etruscan and Lemnian Appear to Be Twigs of the Pelasgian Branch of the Indo-European Language Tree
https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1P3-57934047/etruscan-and-lemnian-appear-to-be-twigs-of-the-pelasgian
Nice discussion here:
Paleoglot: Translating a new Lemnian inscription
8 Nov 2010
http://paleoglot.blogspot.com/2010/11/translating-new-lemnian-inscription.html
Glen Gordon: “We arrive at a provisional translation of ‘[Surum] has been slain for Axulos Hektaion.’ I presume here that the name of the recipient in question is Greek, a conclusion that I doubt would be objectionable considering its context on an Aegean island.”
Nice...but it’s all Greek to me!
Quite sweet, the bottom graphic is a sarcophagus lid showing a bas-relief of the married couple.
That’s what I was referring to...is that of the same time period?
Lemnian
edited by: Daniele F. Maras
http://lila.sns.it/mnamon/index.php?page=Scrittura&id=54&lang=en
symbols:
http://lila.sns.it/mnamon/index.php?page=Simboli&id=54&lang=en
Yeah, it’s similar to what the Etruscans did with their burials, and even their cremations.
So did the Etruscans come the western Anatolia region, or did the Etruscans and the Lemnosians share an earlier origin from somewhere else?
Eat at Joe's
Oh! I didn’t see it until you said. It is sweet.
Joe’s Pizza Parlor
“Kilroy was here”
Unique book goes on displayThe world's oldest multiple-page book - in the lost Etruscan language - has gone on display in Bulgaria's National History Museum in Sofia. It contains six bound sheets of 24 carat gold, with illustrations of a horse-rider, a mermaid, a harp and soldiers. The small manuscript, which is more than two-and-a-half millennia old, was discovered 60 years ago in a tomb uncovered during digging for a canal along the Strouma river in south-western Bulgaria... There are around 30 similar pages known in the world, Ms Penkova said, "but they are not linked together in a book".
BBC
Monday, 26 May, 2003
The surviving tomb-wall painting has scenes of that kind; also they left a lot of terracotta sculpture in their burials.
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