#186989 - 09/28/09 09:00 AM
cuneiform lawsuit
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This might be interesting for those who love the very beginnings of written language. No fancy- or worthless words. Mostly accounting. Yet the tablets are capable of adressing one's imagination and as objects they are beautiful. research project link I read about it in the newspaper recently as one of the members in the research and digitalizing team is a compatriot.
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#186993 - 09/28/09 02:14 PM
Re: cuneiform lawsuit
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Enviable.  Last year I admired a lot of them (behind glass) but I never could hold one my hand. (Hmm, for some reason the law suit-link doesn't work any more. It did when I made the post.) I kept the article and I wish I could translate it, but it's very long. Anyway, in the worst case this specialist in the Elamite language has still half a year to do his research and photographic preservation work. link The sad thing; their money value is not really very high, so if they would get separated and dispersed it would be such a waste. As much as I would like to have one, I would not buy one, but rather see them kept together. Shame.
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#187012 - 09/29/09 02:00 PM
Re: cuneiform lawsuit
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Is this what you are talking about? LINKDid you take at least a picture? Well, you're good. If I would have found a heap of then I would have turned them over to the authorities. If just one, I'm sure I would have smuggled it home.
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#187032 - 09/30/09 07:58 AM
Re: cuneiform lawsuit
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Ha!  this exuberant smiley is for you! So far it looks like it was a Roman object. So who would it belong to after all those ages? The 'honest' finder?
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#187112 - 10/05/09 12:57 PM
Re: cuneiform lawsuit
[Re: BranShea]
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Is this what you are talking about? LINKDid you take at least a picture? Well, you're good. If I would have found a heap of then I would have turned them over to the authorities. If just one, I'm sure I would have smuggled it home. Sorry I did not see your reply. It was just one. I might have smuggled it home, but did not feel right about it somewhow. I
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#187113 - 10/05/09 12:59 PM
Re: cuneiform lawsuit
[Re: BranShea]
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Ha! this exuberant smiley is for you! So far it looks like it was a Roman object. So who would it belong to after all those ages? The 'honest' finder? They said it looked to by Hyksos> the people also known as the Shepherd Kings, who were a dynasty in Egypt for a long time, finally driven out by Ahmose (about 1100 BCE, I believe, without checking out the history.) My guess was that it belonged to the state of Israel. A museum authority concurred.
Edited by LukeJavan8 (10/05/09 01:03 PM)
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#187114 - 10/05/09 01:00 PM
Re: cuneiform lawsuit
[Re: BranShea]
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Is this what you are talking about? LINKDid you take at least a picture? Well, you're good. If I would have found a heap of then I would have turned them over to the authorities. If just one, I'm sure I would have smuggled it home. Yes, I took a picture and would post if I knew how. As you remember I cannot get my pictures on this site.But it was like the ones you put in the Link: smallish, like a ring stone, and white in color.
Edited by LukeJavan8 (10/05/09 01:02 PM)
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