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Unknown language found in ancient clay tablet

Started by questionmark , May 10 2012 09:00 PM
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Posted 10 May 2012 - 09:00 PM

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Your homeland has been taken over by a foreign power. You are forced to move to a frontier town far from your home and work in the palace of the governor. Your name, perhaps the only link to your mother tongue, is recorded in the household accounts in the local script.

This could be the story of some of the women who were attached to the Ziyaret Tepe palace in the ancient Assyrian city of Tušhan over 2500 years ago. Their names were inscribed in cuneiform characters on the clay tablet shown above, which was baked in an accidental fire at the governor's palace around 700 BC.

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Posted 10 May 2012 - 10:43 PM

Wow, that is an entertaining notion.  These slaves have had their names travel the course of centuries in the most inadvertant way, I like it.
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Posted 10 May 2012 - 10:53 PM

Unknown language, or the first dyslectic?
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Posted 11 May 2012 - 02:15 AM

Hopefully someone can create a new apocalypse date from this, time is running out!!!
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Posted 11 May 2012 - 08:58 PM

Typical names, borne by the women – the evidence for the lost language – include Ushimanay, Alagahnia, Irsakinna and Bisoonoomay.
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Posted 13 May 2012 - 10:52 AM

Nice.

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Posted 13 May 2012 - 10:53 AM

View PostMentalcase, on 11 May 2012 - 02:15 AM, said:

Hopefully someone can create a new apocalypse date from this, time is running out!!!

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Posted 13 May 2012 - 11:32 AM

This is big find. Thanks for sharing with us QM! :)

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Posted 13 May 2012 - 02:41 PM

Great find...  Thanks.
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Posted 13 May 2012 - 06:55 PM

How delightful a new language. Put it right next to Extruscan which is also from 700BC.

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Posted 14 May 2012 - 04:06 AM

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Posted 14 May 2012 - 05:13 AM

The top line reads.....
Pulu si bagumba!
The list of names appears to be the passengers and crew of the S.S. Minnow.

The mystery deepens!

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Posted 14 May 2012 - 05:26 AM

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Posted 15 May 2012 - 03:06 AM

Its the language of Aliens

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Posted 29 May 2012 - 06:54 PM

I have interesting idea. Maybe it was Gutian language? :w00t:  
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