Friday, May 03, 2013

MYSTERY TABLET






Ed Shapiro would like us to decipher the marks on this object. The only clue we have is that it is Levantine, that is, from the Syria-Palestine region. Which way up is it? All three photographs have the same position, with the face of the man in the hat in the middle (as he is an optical illusion, you probably can not see him). In the top picture, on the left side there seems to be  a square, which could be a B in the proto-alphabet. It might be cuneiform, though there are more lines than wedges in the apparent characters.  It could be mere doodling, of course.
As ever, only the person who wrote the inscription knew what it meant (if anything).

Monday, August 20, 2012

INSCRIBED STAMP SEAL

 

What's this?
Well, I tried a possibility that it was ancient Egyptian cursive (Hieratic), but it really looks like an alphabetic script from the current era, such as Syriac or Arabic. It is indeed the Kufic style of the Arabic alphabet.
4th of May 2013