I'm still trying to decypher this one.
Posted on 04/13/2005 1:51:24 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Archaeologists have succeeded to decipher the text of an old stone tablet found recently in Boushehr, south of Iran. The tablet belongs to Darius the Great, King of Achaemenids.
Excavation in the old palace of Bardak-e Siah in Boushehr, in the southern province of Boushehr, at the end of March led to the discovery of a stone tablet, with a written text in New Babylonian and a relief of Darius the Great.
Experts of ancient languages succeeded to read and decipher the text, which is evidently part of a larger one. It says: "... I put ... on top of the gate..."
According to head of the excavation team of Doroudgah-e Borazjan (where the palace is located), Ehsan Yaghmayi, the stone inscription is actually the base of a column. The beginning and end of the inscription is broken and a large part of the text is still uncovered, leaving experts with just one line of inscription.
Dr. Abdolmajid Rafi'i, expert of ancient languages, has proved that the language the text is written in is New Babylonian. The one sentence reads: "...I put ... on top of the gate ....".
In the Achaemenid era, each tablet was usually inscribed not only in New Babylonian, but also in New Elamite and Ancient Persian, and therefore, the archaeology team is looking to find the rest of the Darius tablet.
Last week, the team also found another tablet, which is grey and is of limestone. It measures 3x5 centimeters and only one word is inscribed on it. Experts believe it belonged to a larger text. Dr. Arfai?i has started working on deciphering the new discovery.
I'm still trying to decypher this one.
I disagree. My research reveals that the text actually says "all your columns are belong to us"
Remarkable for what it does not say!
It obviously is referring to the Stargate.
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Occasionally the much inflated earlier date for Hammurabi still appears in print, but that was deflated 30+ years ago, and the new date is accepted. Not sure if this link is still working, I had the file on the drive.The Testimony of the MonumentsThe fourteenth chapter of Genesis relates that "In the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim (nations), they made war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Bersha, king of Gomorrah, and Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar)." ...This story, told with so many details that its refutation would be easy if it were not true to the facts and if there were contemporary records with which to compare it, has been a special butt for the ridicule of the Higher Critics of the Wellhausen school, Professor Nöldeke confidently declaring as late as 1869 that criticism had forever disproved its claim to be historical... Hammurabi is now known to have had his capital at Babylon at the time of Abraham. Until recently this chronology was disputed, so that the editors and contributors of the New Schaff-Herzog Cyclopedia dogmatically asserted that as Abraham lived nearly 300 years later than Hammurabi, the biblical story must be unhistorical... Chedorlaomer is pretty certainly identified as Kudur-Lagamar (servant of Lagamar, one of the principal Elamite gods). Kudur-Lagamar was king of Elam, and was either the father or the brother of Kudur-Mabug, whose son, Eri-Aku (Arioch), reigned over Larsa and Ur, and other cities of southern Babylonia. He speaks of Kudur-Mabug "as the father of the land of the Amorites," i. e., of Palestine and Syria. Tidal, "king of nations," was supposed by Dr. Pinches to be referred to on a late tablet in connection with Chedorlaomer and Arioch under the name Tudghula, who are said, together, to have "attacked and spoiled Babylon."
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ROFL! I was thinking the same thing, very striking resemblance to the tablet which led to the discovery of the Stargate.
So, is it Dare-ee-us or Duh-ry-us? I grew up with the former, but have been hearing the latter a lot lately.
Where is the Bible mentioned in the article?
"Who are those guys?"
1 After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him and set his seat above all the princes who were with him. 2 And all the king's servants who were within the king's gate bowed and paid homage to Haman, for so the king had commanded concerning him.
But Mordecai would not bow or pay homage.
""...I put ... on top of the gate ....". "
"the FedEx package for pickup"?
One of the Darius's prayer for Persia was:
I want you God almighty, to keep Lie, Cheating, Draught and enemies away from Persia!
"I'm still trying to decypher this one."
Easy. The sun god smiles down upon his faithful servant and bestows gifts of food, happiness and a worthy steed.
Dar-YAH-Vesh
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