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Text in lost language may reveal god or goddess worshipped by Etruscans at ancient temple:
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Posted on 03/29/2016 5:41:03 PM PDT by JimSEA
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This will be one to follow.
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posted on
03/29/2016 5:41:03 PM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: SunkenCiv
For your interest. You’ve likely already got this.
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posted on
03/29/2016 5:42:08 PM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: JimSEA
I’m betting the Etruscans loved their Ovaltine.
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posted on
03/29/2016 5:42:56 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(I don't know what Claire Wolfe is thinking, but I know what I'm thinking.)
To: JimSEA
They were texting? How ‘bout Tweeting?
To: JimSEA
The slab, weighing about 500 pounds and nearly four feet tall by more than two feet wide...
boy, trying carrying around a bible printed that way :)
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posted on
03/29/2016 5:48:39 PM PDT
by
dp0622
To: Disestablishmentarian
They always assume everything they find is religious. It’s either a shopping list or a Honey-do list.
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posted on
03/29/2016 5:48:59 PM PDT
by
oldasrocks
(They should lock all of you up and only let out us properly medicated people.)
To: oldasrocks
Its either a shopping list or a Honey-do list.I would think political propaganda would be quite likely.
Senator Crassus and the 7 Whores?
Must have been an interesting week.
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posted on
03/29/2016 5:54:27 PM PDT
by
Fraxinus
(My opinion, worth what you paid.)
To: JimSEA
Let me guess - Gozer worship.
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posted on
03/29/2016 5:57:59 PM PDT
by
Ken H
To: Fraxinus
Maybe it says “Made in China”
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posted on
03/29/2016 5:59:01 PM PDT
by
XEHRpa
To: JimSEA
Make Etruria Great Again!
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posted on
03/29/2016 5:59:28 PM PDT
by
Yashcheritsiy
(You can't have a constitution without a country to go with it)
To: JimSEA
To: ClearCase_guy
It's All About the Etruscan Water Moose
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posted on
03/29/2016 6:02:50 PM PDT
by
disndat
To: JimSEA
Seventy legible letters? How much wealth of detail can the experts torture out of that? That’s shorter than this post.
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posted on
03/29/2016 6:04:19 PM PDT
by
sphinx
To: JimSEA
...may be a rare sacred text in the Etruscan language that is likely to yield rich details about Etruscan worship of a god or goddess. "Rich details" from 70 characters?
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posted on
03/29/2016 6:06:36 PM PDT
by
TChad
To: JimSEA
Question for someone in the know: How likely is it this will ever be translated?
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posted on
03/29/2016 6:06:39 PM PDT
by
Jack Hammer
(uff said.)
To: JimSEA
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posted on
03/29/2016 6:12:39 PM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: JimSEA
“STELE!!”
:Stanley Kowalski
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posted on
03/29/2016 6:14:15 PM PDT
by
Adder
(No, Mr. Franklin, we could NOT keep it.)
To: JimSEA
"The stele has at least 70 legible letters and punctuation marks, likely with new words never seen before."
*Never* seen before? Even by those who wrote (chiseled) it?
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posted on
03/29/2016 6:21:25 PM PDT
by
chrisser
To: JimSEA
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posted on
03/29/2016 6:21:29 PM PDT
by
Da Bilge Troll
(Defeatism is not a winning strategy!)
To: Jack Hammer
I’m not in the know, but given that nothing in Etruscan has ever been translated and it is considered a “lost language” (even in the thread title), I’d guess a heck of a long time. If these 70 characters somehow help decode the whole language, I’d be surprised, but this stele does seem to have some context to work with.
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