Careful/ Attention ! This post is not a decipherment or reading of any actual written content of Tartaria tablets. Given that the signs do not belong to a single writing system but to several, the page has a purely didactic character. It has the role of trying and testing different writings, in the idea that the tablets would have used one of them. The signs on the tablets belong to several writing systems over a long period of time and which have been used in different geographical areas. In none of the trials did the signs fall into a single type of writing, there always remained signs that came from other writings (or as coming from the unknown). Most of the signs come from the Sumerian proto-cuneiform -shaped ones. The signs in the upper half of the round tablet seem to come from archaic Greek writing. This “collection” of signs seems to be the fruit of one’s rich imagination. As A. Falkenstein and A. A. Vaiman found, (this is also my firm opinion) the author was not a scribe, he had only vague notions about writing in general, and it is not known what he intended or he was after. There are many elements of inconsistency as well as others that take the tablets out of the usual patterns and norms of honest logic, writing and intentions. =====
Image, from KEYTH MASSEY http://aplaceofbrightness.blogspot.com/2008/11/moonlight-in-romania-tartaria-tablets_21.html
As a pure sign, D-shape had an absolutely scarce presence in deep antiquity. For writing, was used the pressed variant, not traced!. Nnot found simply “D”, traced in any sumerian tablet. Was in Egypt, but 90 deg. rotated as the sign for “loaf of bread” and consonant T. Picture, from https://discoveringegypt.com/egyptian-hieroglyphic-writing/egyptian-hieroglyphic-alphabet/
From that time, allmost 1.500 years was not used till old canaanite (close shape), and another 500 years when emerged archaik greek alphabet (in Chalcidian). Precise-shaped as modern capital letter D was not used by minoans micenaeans (Cretan hieroglyphic, Linear A,Linear B). A Close shape was used by them for volumes and others for month and year; but only close shapes.
From Minoan language Blog/ Andras Zeke
From Richard Vallance’s Blog https://linearbknossosmycenae.com https://linearbknossosmycenae.com/2015/02/19/mycenaean-linear-b-units-of-measurement-liquid-dry-weight-click-to-enlarge/
From Richard Vallance’s Blog, https://linearbknossosmycenae.com/tag/agriculture/
From JOHN JOUNGER http://people.ku.edu/~jyounger/LinearA/ Sign *034 has been suggested by several scholars to represent MNA (or, if a disyllabic value can be accepted, MINA), based on its resemblance to the crescent moon
In the archaic greek alphabet varians, the sign D was used for D and for R-letters. At the beginnings greek used for D the shape delta , coming from canaanite/phnoeician dalet. Only scarce here: 1991. Sass B. Studia alphabetica. On the origin and early history of the …www.academia.edu/…/1991._Sass_B._Studia_alphabetica._O… “The D shape is the South Semitic form found in several inscriptions of the …”
1-st time I’we heard of this sign was the research of Mrs. Denisse Schmandt Besserat. (Also it is in Mr’ Falkenstein sign-list) She (Mrs.Besserat) was eager and the first one to remark that early sumerian signs reproduced exactly the shape of the much before time, used objects (tokens) put inside clay containers. This paralel existence of inside tokens and depicted signs on clay containers happened well before emergence of writing. She noticed the sign as direct related to the much older writing predecessor, the tokens and administrative accounds and much earlier counting/ numeration. But if she know the significance and using of other tokens and signs , under this D sign nothing was written. From http://en.finaly.org/index.php/The_earliest_precursor_of_writing See 8-th column (on the table, IX), from top, 3-rd row From : The Earliest Precursor of Writing DENISSE SCHMANDT BESSERAT http://en.finaly.org/index.php/The_earliest_precursor_of_writing
“It is not necessary to theorize about some of these meanings; a number of ideographs on the Uruk tablets almost exactly reproduce in two dimensions many of the tokens. For example, Uruk arbitrary signs for numerals, such as a small cone-shaped impression for the number one, a circular impression for the number 10 and a larger cone-shaped impression for the number 60 are matched by tokens: small cones, spheres and large cones. ” me: sumerian made numbers only by pressing/imprinting , not by scratching, using the stylus.
The sign “D” is also in Adam Falkenstein sign-list from Uruk, A. Falkenstein, Archaische Texte aus Uruk (Archaische Texte aus Uruk 1; Berlin-Leipzig 1936) , as ATU 527, but pitty not found if was used traced or pressed, and nothing about sign name or meaning.. ———————————————- The long row of Tartaria tablets researchers, at the point of confronting and analysing these signs, reacted differently. Some realised that faced a hard question and probably felt like heating an concrete wall. Much important, they choosed different approaches or solutions, from that ones usualy pertaining to ancient rock-art to sumerian products/numbers or even to sanskrit vedic.
From The skies of Lascaux http://www.iceageiconology.net/index-of-chapters/xi-the-proto-zodiac/ (19.000 years B.P.)
“Tuc, as well, shows the likeness of a human ancestor, and significantly, one who is juxtaposed with a “P” sign (Fig. 12 b).
This configuration, which is located in the opposite end of the cave from the Chapel of Months (Fig. 19, at b), identifies the ancestral being by two circular eyes that are drawn on a roughly triangular face, which on closer inspection is also the standard image of a woman’s vulva, This character is, then, a likely “great grandmother” of the tribe, and her association with the “moon” sign (Fig. 12 b) conveys the belief that the relationship between women and the moon (the menstrual cycle) was as old as the dawn of time.
From The First (Lunar) Calendar https://sservi.nasa.gov/articles/oldest-lunar-calendars/
The archaeological record’s earliest data that speaks to human awareness of the stars and ‘heavens’ dates to the Aurignacian Culture of Europe, c.32,000 B.C. Between 1964 and the early 1990s, Alexander Marshack published breakthrough research that documented the mathematical and astronomical knowledge in the Late Upper Paleolithic Cultures of Europe. Marshack deciphered sets of marks carved into animal bones, and occasionally on the walls of caves, as records of the lunar cycle. These marks are sets of crescents or lines. Artisans carefully controlled line thickness so that a correlation with lunar phases would be as easy as possible to perceive. Sets of marks were often laid out in a serpentine pattern that suggests a snake deity or streams and rivers. ——————————————————————————————————-
Moon phases from paleolithic, Germany:http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2000/10/19/200504.htm “Dr Rappengueck has recently identified some constellations and stars from the caves, but says the paintings also show the moon going through its different phases.”
From https://www.writtenchinese.com/lowdown-6-types-of-chinese-characters/The first type of writing was called oracle bone script 甲骨文 (jiǎ gǔ wén) thought to have been used between 1500 and 1000 BCE. The script was etched onto turtle shells and animal bones, and then heated until they cracked. The Shang Dynasty courtiers would use the bones to tell the future.
Folowing, I will present my opinion: ——————————————————————————————- – If a very old age of the tablet is presumed (5.000 B.C>/M.Merlini) one could consider to have there the Moon phases. Note No way for such great time depth, in better case would be 2.000-3.000 B.C. !
But this solution arise another set of problems/another hard questions: -In this case the Marco Merlini hard-sustained supposition that “scrittura e nata in Europa” is falling down, as we are not talking about writing, but at best of proto writing. – We’ll have then kind of mixture, writing signs on the tablet mixed with proto-writing signs wich usually not happened.He choosed to interpret the signs as unknokn to us, of esoteric nature so he got himself out of the field of prooving that it is writing. I cannot disregard the posibility of having moon phases, have no enough opposite strong/hard evidences.
But as long as humankind showed that scraped Moon Phases (Germany 18.000 B.C.) and in paleolithic (France caves) this could happen much easyer later. Later, minoans showed that were capable of making an lunisolar calendar, base on 8 years cycle. Image, from https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2011/04/researcher-cites-ancient-minoan-era.html
These “Moon-phases signs”, is only my 3–rd option, or place in preffered renderings order. ————————————————————- My first option is upon folowing arguments: – writing emerged in high developed societies, necessary to fulfill practical needs, as to keep administrative, economical accounts. – stars, planets and Moon could have been related to agriculture, nature cicles. calendar but also to direct related religious rituals. -Early world proto-writing writing in Indus valley, proto-Elamite, Sumer and Egypt not noticed these although very complex problem, but they made simple everyday life accounts. IN PROTO-WRITING AND LATER IN WRITTEN TABLETS THERE WAS NOT USED MOON, BUT FREQUENTLY MONTH =================================== So if an old aged is supposed, this is my 1-st preffered interpretation/option: -Due of the similarity of sumerian GAR sign read Ninda(bread) with egyptian T/Ti (loaf of bread) . From https://cdli.ucla.edu/tools/signlists/protocuneiform/archsigns.html
GA’AR (GAR)
GAR sign is an D with a paralel stroke inside, as could be our 1-st D on the tablet. Sign GAR is read “NINDA” :”cereal ratio,BREAD” From http://www.mummies2pyramids.info/hieroglyphics/hieroglyph-letter-t.htm
Note If the signs were written by a sumerian hand we have the signs +++++ “As“ first D‘: “sur?/Gar” , From https://cdli.ucla.edu/tools/SignLists/protocuneiform/archsigns.html
SUR
Sumerian Lexicon – IS MU https://is.muni.cz › Halloran_version_3
de la JA Halloran ·…… sur: n., a garden plant; rushes; chaff, chopped
second D:”60” , o:”10″ , o:”10″ >> ” one grain ratio : 80 “ The simple explanation for one/same sign is, that containers,vessels, cereal recipients, dishes had and has the same shape all over the world, as the main bread shape also is.
As in proto-cuneiform, Linear B, Egypt D-sign was used for (food) jar/volume or bread : My preffered (“number one”) rendering of D-shaped sign is: 1. SIGN D, “FOOD (CEREAL) PORTION/RATIO” —————————————– Second preffered rendering. Due of my own concerns regarding the “strange” group or row of signs on the upper half of the round tablet, as I am accustomed with all writing systems, I sustain that only this UPPER HALF OF THE ROUND TABLET it is possible to contain QUITE “MODERN” SIGNS
This upper half, usually covered by oblong tablet (noticed by sole Mr. Marco Merlini), is covered maybe because : – an mysterious/esoteric/secret message, – in equal measure could be read by contemporery literate bypassers and so not remain hidden
HR DDoo = HAR RORO/ar roro/ar roroo/ar rorou “up moisten”
From http://latin-dictionary.net/definition/4854/arroro-arrorare-arroravi-arroratus?fbclid=IwAR1U52aOwoziJXj5xY8K33cNpjyFr0VH1Sj7sif3hi1AZBnZSGMddPUJQgU arroro, arrorare, arroravi, arroratus verb “moisten, bedew” Note Maybe related to: hori (rom. a hori=a ura)is a form of https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/horior#Latin
horior (present infinitive horī, (archaic) I encourage, ! urge !
URGE MOISTENING/ (rain) !!
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