Ancient stone slab contains a language that nobody is able to decipher

[UM-Bot]

The slab was discovered three years ago by local fishermen in the silt of Bashplemi Lake, Georgia.

https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/382910/ancient-stone-slab-contains-a-language-that-nobody-is-able-to-decipher

[Tatetopa]

Hold on a minute there. 14,000 years takes us back to the paleolithic, not bronze age (3300-1200 BC) or iron age 1200 BC to 800 AD). Is it a decimal problem, 1400BC? Or is it a fake?

[Portre]

Seems early to me.

Four independent inventions of writing are most commonly recognized—in Mesopotamia (c. 3400–3100 BCE), Egypt (c. 3250 BCE),[9][10][6] China (before c. 1250 BCE), and Mesoamerica (before c. 1 CE).

[jethrofloyd]

I didn't know 14.000 years ago was the Bronze Age? It's a basic archeology UM-Bot. 🙂

[Piney]

2 hours ago, Tatetopa said:

Hold on a minute there. 14,000 years takes us back to the paleolithic, not bronze age (3300-1200 BC) or iron age 1200 BC to 800 AD). Is it a decimal problem, 1400BC? Or is it a fake?

It looks like it was made with machine steel tools.

I say fraud.

[Saru]

You can blame the source link for that dating error - I've no idea where they got 14,000 years from.

I've removed it from the article.

[jethrofloyd]

What means ''West Iberia'' in the text? Portugal?

[Abramelin]

2 hours ago, Saru said:

You can blame the source link for that dating error - I've no idea where they got 14,000 years from.

I've removed it from the article.

Just a typo. It must have been 1,400 years bce.

[Ell]

Is it upside down?

[Abramelin]

2 hours ago, Piney said:

It looks like it was made with machine steel tools.

I say fraud.

I don't know. That depends on the type of stone used.

[Abramelin]

31 minutes ago, jethrofloyd said:

What means ''West Iberia'' in the text? Portugal?

There was another "Iberia" in the Caucasus.

[Abramelin]

5 hours ago, UM-Bot said:

The slab was discovered three years ago by local fishermen in the silt of Bashplemi Lake, Georgia.

https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/382910/ancient-stone-slab-contains-a-language-that-nobody-is-able-to-decipher

I think it looks much the same as the Byblos script which was a derivative of the Sumerian and Akkadian cuneiform script with added several Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Edited December 5, 2024 by Abramelin

[Abramelin]

25 minutes ago, Ell said:

Is it upside down?

Why do you think it is?

[+DieChecker]

Just offhand you can see some of the "Letters" repeat.

It is interesting it does not appear to he very weathered. Was found in a lake? But not deeply buried, like you'd expect with a Bronze Age item.

Either very, very lucky, or purpose put there.

[jethrofloyd]

It might be a distinctive or regionally produced script.

[iAlrakis]

20 hours ago, jethrofloyd said:

What means ''West Iberia'' in the text? Portugal?

i always though Iberia was Spain

[TomBarnes]

What if it is not a language or a mathematical formula but it is an ancient version of the sort of writing one sees on buses and subway cars and walls in the inner city that is undecipherable using normal standards to judge writing.

[Piney]

2 hours ago, iAlrakis said:

i always though Iberia was Spain

There was 2 of them. 

The Kingdom of Iberia was part of the Georgia. They called themselves Kartli.

[Black Red Devil]

They found the authors of the tablets.

[Abramelin]

On 12/6/2024 at 9:48 AM, jethrofloyd said:

It might be a distinctive or regionally produced script.

There was an older culture in Georgia, called the Maykop Culture:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maykop_culture

And this was their script:

 

[Piney]

47 minutes ago, Abramelin said:

There was an older culture in Georgia, called the Maykop Culture:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maykop_culture

And this was their script:

 

And they probably spoke a Caucasus Language related to Circassian. 

[Abramelin]

32 minutes ago, Piney said:

And they probably spoke a Caucasus Language related to Circassian. 

Probably, but I was more interested in the script.

You'd think this older Maykop script could be related to the script of this topic that's dated to 1,400 BCE.

[Piney]

24 minutes ago, Abramelin said:

Probably, but I was more interested in the script.

You'd think this older Maykop script could be related to the script of this topic that's dated to 1,400 BCE.

I think the op tablet is Georgian or Chechnya fraud. 

[Abramelin]

6 minutes ago, Piney said:

I think the op tablet is Georgian or Chechnya fraud. 

Just because the letters appear to be cut out in a very sharp, detailed way. That's why I posted earlier that that kind of precision depends on the kind of rock used.

But, you could be right of course.

[Piney]

35 minutes ago, Abramelin said:

Just because the letters appear to be cut out in a very sharp, detailed way. That's why I posted earlier that that kind of precision depends on the kind of rock used.

But, you could be right of course.

That type of precision should be a lot more eroded and not as precise.