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Lost Babylonian Hymn Deciphered
Archaeology Magazine ^ | July 8, 2025 | editors / unattributed

Posted on 07/17/2025 9:28:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

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Cuneiform tablet inscribed with the text of a hymn, © Anmar A. Fadhil, Department of Archaeology, University of Baghdad, with the permission of the Iraqi Museum and the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage
© Anmar A. Fadhil
© Anmar A. Fadhil

1 posted on 07/17/2025 9:28:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 07/17/2025 9:29:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I tried to translate that but I came up with “There’s a bathroom on the right.”


3 posted on 07/17/2025 9:31:47 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Really stupid comment that is neither funny nor clever.


4 posted on 07/17/2025 9:37:34 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: BenLurkin

Ooooh, well played!


5 posted on 07/17/2025 9:38:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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6 posted on 07/17/2025 9:42:07 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Definitely need my reading glasses for that hymnal.


7 posted on 07/17/2025 9:45:35 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: nopardons; BenLurkin
Tough crowd!

Let's try to lighten things up with Mr. Bean sharing a hymnal in church.


8 posted on 07/17/2025 9:49:23 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: BenLurkin

By I. RON BUTTERFLY?


9 posted on 07/17/2025 9:51:59 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: BenLurkin

“How dare you!” Greta Thunberg

🎵Born in Babylonia
Raised in Arizona🎶


10 posted on 07/17/2025 9:54:21 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Larry Lucido

Good one, but I liked BLACK ADDER more than Mr Bean. Still THIS is a funny post! :-)


11 posted on 07/17/2025 10:05:25 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Larry Lucido

Typical male supremacist society, those Babylonians, hymnal, but no hermnal. Probably all the Babylonian men claimed to have the kavorka.


12 posted on 07/17/2025 10:15:42 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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“...perhaps most significantly, provides valuable information about the role of women in Babylonian society, including their duties as priestesses.”

Wonders whether sammiches had been invented yet...


13 posted on 07/17/2025 10:18:36 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: SunkenCiv

“Read the full hymn and the original scholarly article”

I scrolled through the article and didn’t see the text of the hymn in english.


14 posted on 07/17/2025 11:21:17 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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To: aquila48
I scrolled through the article and didn’t see the text of the hymn in english.

You'll have to scroll down pretty far, but eventually you will encounter large chunks of individual fragments of the text translated into English.

Regards,

15 posted on 07/17/2025 11:45:47 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Looks like Bringing in the sheaves


16 posted on 07/18/2025 3:05:05 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: SunkenCiv

Is there any way to tell how it was sung?
I have learned a lot in my very long life but I still do not understand music or its history. I may do a deep dive later to learn the history of notes etc.


17 posted on 07/18/2025 3:25:31 AM PDT by Doctor Congo
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Early in the evenin’, just about supper time
Over by the courthouse, they’re starting to unwind
Four kids on the corner trying to bring you up
Willy picks a tune out and he blows it on the lyre


18 posted on 07/18/2025 4:04:57 AM PDT by BipolarBob (The Weather Bureau announced they will shut down the entire Sharknado early warning system and staff)
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To: aquila48

It’s right in some images lower down, here’s the first one:

https://static.cambridge.org/binary/version/id/urn:cambridge.org:id:binary:20250314120806539-0760:S0021088924000238:S0021088924000238_figinline4.png?pub-status=live


19 posted on 07/18/2025 6:49:41 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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To: Doctor Congo
The oldest known musical notation isn't all that old. Probably was passed down orally, or if recorded at all, written on non-durable materials.

20 posted on 07/18/2025 6:58:21 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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