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Stolen Sumerian Tablets Come from the Lost City of Irisagrig
Live Science ^
| April 30, 2018
| Owen Jarus
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these tablets are returned and if they are from Irisagrig, it will be a great tragedy for scholarship that they will not be published before they are returned," said David Owen, a professor of Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University.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will ever have acccess to them, nor are there any Iraqi scholars capable of publishing them given the many thousands of unpublished texts already in storage in the museum for generations and mostly inaccessible to scholars," Owen told Live Science.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."
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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: cornelluniversity; cuneiform; davidowen; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; hobbylobby; iraq; irisagrig; site1056; stevegreen; sumeria; sumerian
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posted on
05/01/2018 6:27:49 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
How hard could it be to take pictures of each one as they are being packed?
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posted on
05/01/2018 6:37:46 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: SunkenCiv
"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these tablets are returned and if they are from Irisagrig, it will be a great tragedy for scholarship that they will not be published before they are returned," said David Owen, a professor of Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University... "nor are there any Iraqi scholars capable of publishing them..." Sounds like an arrogant asshole.
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posted on
05/01/2018 6:47:10 PM PDT
by
libertylover
(If people come here legally, they're immigrants; if they come here illegally, they're invaders.)
To: SunkenCiv
a few [of the Sumerian tablets] contain a form of magical spells called incantations, the statement said. Has anyone alerted Ash Williams?
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posted on
05/01/2018 6:51:42 PM PDT
by
Pilsner
To: SunkenCiv
Muzzies seem to have a habit of destroying anything predating or in conflict with their own history. Artifacts are either demolished or looted and sold to the west. Historical sites have been dynamited or rebuilt for their own use, erasing the culture that built it originally.
They're right to be concerned, these artifacts won't last intact in Iran.
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posted on
05/01/2018 6:51:46 PM PDT
by
ZOOKER
(Until further notice the /s is implied...)
To: SunkenCiv
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. Why is THAT reference in there?
Im sure plenty of archaeologists could say they havent worked with many companies...
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posted on
05/01/2018 7:13:24 PM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: SunkenCiv
A father of one of my students was stationed in Europe. It seemed he took everything that wasn’t nailed down. He had loads of stuff. Had a Nero coin he found at Pompeii, bits from Augustus’s tomb, a breastplate from the English Civil war and lots of Soviet stuffhe was in Europe about the time that the Soviet Union collapsed. And he had four cuneiform tablets that he bought at a “jumble sale” in England. They were white, about 10” x 4”. No doubt a souvenir of an Englishman in Mesopotamia back in the day.
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posted on
05/01/2018 7:14:27 PM PDT
by
hanamizu
To: ConservativeMind
From the article:
The tablets are part of a cache of thousands of looted artifacts purchased by Hobby Lobby and seized by the U.S. government. They are now set to be returned to Iraq.
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posted on
05/01/2018 7:37:11 PM PDT
by
clockwise
To: SunkenCiv
For the love of God, where is Indiana Jones when you really need him!
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posted on
05/01/2018 7:37:16 PM PDT
by
Governor Dinwiddie
(MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
To: BenLurkin
Pictures? How hard would have been to 3D scan them and 3D print copies for study?
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posted on
05/01/2018 9:09:59 PM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: SunkenCiv
the Lost City of Irisagrig Now you're just making words up.
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posted on
05/01/2018 11:36:28 PM PDT
by
Defiant
(I may be deplorable, but I'm not getting in that basket.)
To: libertylover
It is just the truth not arrogance.
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posted on
05/02/2018 2:25:25 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: PIF; libertylover
Islamism, like any other totalitarian ideology, has been a disaster for scholarship. The left-wing totalitarianism in the American academy seems to have been even more destructive than Nazism because it has been in force longer, and the majority of the faculty are adherents. At least in Nazi Germany most scholars despised the Nazis, and were embedded in a tradition of classical European liberalism, although reactionary anti-nazism hasn’t been altogether healthy.
To: SunkenCiv
Irisagrig is a "Sumerian city never excavated before and whose location remains unknown"No wonder. The Anunnaki's bases were destroyed when the Antarctic glaciers melted.
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05/02/2018 5:13:35 AM PDT
by
MUDDOG
To: Defiant
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posted on
05/02/2018 7:48:14 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
To: ZOOKER
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05/02/2018 7:48:22 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; ...
Well put, Lonesome in Massachussets.
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posted on
05/02/2018 7:49:09 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
To: MUDDOG
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posted on
05/02/2018 8:24:53 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
To: PIF; libertylover
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posted on
05/02/2018 8:25:24 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
To: SunkenCiv
What the heck did I just read???
:o|
‘Face
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posted on
05/02/2018 8:32:07 AM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Never mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness.)
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