Posted on 05/01/2018 6:27:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Not all scholars agree that the artifacts should be returned right away. "If these tablets are returned and if they are from Irisagrig, it will be a great tragedy for scholarship that they will not be published before they are returned," said David Owen, a professor of Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University. Owen has published a number of scientific papers describing tablets from Irisagrig, but has not worked with Hobby Lobby and has not studied the seized texts.
"Once they enter the bowels of the Iraq Museum, it is unlikely scholars will ever have acccess to them, nor are there any Iraqi scholars capable of publishing them given the many thousands of unpublished texts already in storage in the museum for generations and mostly inaccessible to scholars," Owen told Live Science.
Owen added, "Our goverment should, first and foremost, make sure all artifacts are recorded and published before repatriation. This would be of great benefit not only to scholarship but also to the Iraqis who do not have the resources to publish these texts. Anything less is a travesty."
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
I would take some time. With any luck, the Hobby Lobby guy had that done on the QT. Regardless, he did the world a service by smuggling them out of harm's way and safekeeping them for a time.
The original chicken scratching! :^)
Dear Sunk, do you have any other information concerning the lost city of Irisagrig?
Wiseman: When you removed the book from the cradle, did you speak the words?
Ash: Yeah, basically.
Wiseman: Did you speak the exact words?
Ash: Look, maybe I didn’t say every single little tiny syllable, no. But basically I said them, yeah.
Nope, it's the first I'd heard of it. It was the first most people had heard of it. And of course, not counting the readers of the news story here on FR and elsewhere, 99% of Earth has never heard of it. :^) There are thousands of unpublished cuneiform tablets -- can't pay for that and buy chemical weapons and nukes at the same time -- and there are probably plenty of surprises there. The reason the cuneiform tablets survived in the first place is, the city was burned to the ground by one of their none-too-neighborly neighbors, and the heat baked them into little bricks.
Ancient Lost City of Mardaman Uncovered in Iraq
By Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor | May 11, 2018 01:53pm ET
https://www.livescience.com/62545-lost-city-of-mardaman-discovered.html
Thanks!
The possible site of the lost city:
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
