French officials say centuries-old inscription on rock is a 'mystery,' offer reward to decipher it

FoxNews.com ^ | May 10, 2019 | Madeline Farber | Fox News

[SunkenCiv]

:^) The translation is, "we don't serve clubs or colors."

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

It says, "When the communists get in power you can either go across the sea or pray to God."

They can send my reward to Free Republic.

[kosciusko51]

It looks like the mathematical definition of a continuous function.

[fruser1]

Definition of a limit.

[kosciusko51]

Okay, I see that. Does require that the function is continuous in the neighborhood of the limit.

[fruser1]

Right, a def of continuity over an interval is that left and right handed limits at a point are equal for every point on the interval.

[CJ Wolf]

It says “I shall ever fart in your general direction and your mom smells of elderberries.”

[ETL]

Thanks for the YouTube link.

Made the following Gif from it.

[ETL]

[BenLurkin]

Very cool.

[ETL]

[Red Badger]

It’s Greek to me......................

[Red Badger]

The First Transcription

We have two basic sources for the inscription: the version that appeared in the Bulletin (just after the above-translated text), and the hand-written version that appears in the mairie‘s PDF. Firstly, here’s the SAF version:

ROC AR B…
DRE AR GRIO SE EVELOH
AR VIRIONES BAOAVEL… R I
… GENBICEN DA BEN ESOA… S E
DIASBOANT…
…EKGES…
BO…FET
DAR
ASOMGAROPA
VARLAEOERIATQDAO
NELACIEOD – ET… F… AOMA
CVLESEDAREIDIMEVSMES
ARPRIGILOD1787
(coeur et croix) OBIIE: BRISBVILAR… FROIK… AL
…ALVOA ARBORSINET
CARCLONEPR ES (SAKI) ASONRES E I BEL
(ANNDDIN) VMS
… (ABAN) SDARANDOC (SAOU) ADREIRIO
(FAN) 1786 NEIS
… CL…
… DOS…
SARMIS – UT
177IMESO
EMGAR
DALOTOGREC
TRE: C-N

D’une autre main, la date de 1920…

All the same, I have to point that this SAF transcription isn’t really doing justice to the lettering on the rock. For a start, the first letter resembles a lower case ‘d’ more than a ‘D’; several of the letters seem to have backwards ‘N’ shapes; and so forth.

Even so, this first transcription was (without much doubt) done in good faith some years ago, and we must be aware that the process of cleaning it up and preparing it for public view in 2017-2019 may possibly have added a layer of interpretation to these carvings that wasn’t originally there.

[Red Badger]

http://ciphermysteries.com/2019/05/10/the-mysterious-stone-near-plougastel-daoulas-continued

[Red Badger]

The Second Transcription In the following version of the hand-transcription released by the mairie, I have rendered the back-to-front ‘N’ as the Cyrillic capital I , and the back-to-front ‘S’ as (the Unicode character 01A7), etc. All of which is not perfect, sure, but it’s perhaps tolerably close: GROCAR dREAR DIOƧEEVbIO ARVRFOИEƧLAΘENEL PEИ AbEИEИEƧΘ182E GEИbICEИG EKGE (left-facing crescent moon shape) AZOMOARΘ PA ꙋCDOFET dAROA AIELAChEODCET DA AOMA CVLESELDdA RE IdIMEVƧMEƧ ARPRIGILOd17(cross on top of a heart)87 ObIIE bRIƧbVILA ALVQ4AKbORSIV . T OSCARCLOIVEPRE 2 . T ZOИREZE VAR dARAИdOL AdREIRI9 1786 ИE12