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ravi9@... wrote:
> --- In cybalist@..., gknysh@... wrote:
> > Prof. V. Kul'baka (an archaeologist connected to
> the
> > Mariupil' Humanities Institute) has recently
> published an
> interesting Kul'baka notes that a
> > recently discovered pot seems inscribed in what
> looks very much
> like
> > very early Sanskrit letters. The pot, ..is from
> the time and
> > area (Donets'k region) of the Zrubna culture (ca.
> 1200 BC).
>
>
> Any chance we could see some pictures of the pot and
> the incriptions?
>
>
> Ravi
****I'm still a cyberbaby, and have not yet got into
scanning. But there is a reproduction of the inscribed
pot in Kul'baka's "Bronze Age Somatic cults in
southeastern Europe" (Mariupil' 1998 [in Ukr.] ISBN:
966-604-021-2), p. 50. He also gives a reference to an
article by A.S. Tatarynov ("Novie sosudi epokhi bronzi
so znakami (Donbass)" in Sovetskaia Arkheologiia 1981,
n. 4, p. 252, fig.2 and 3) Perhaps you could look for
it there. == There are 10 symbols inscribed on the
pot, which Kul'baka recognizes as (pardon my
transcription from Kul'baka's Ukrainian
transliteration: all errors are mine) KHVA -- TYYA --
[O -- RYYA] -- [CHI -- KSHA -- NA] -- [TA -- KU -- I]
--, and interprets as "Zverny svoje blahorodne
zastupnytstvo na toho shcho pospishaje" ("turn your
honourable protection on the one who moves quickly").
He thinks it might be an appeal to either a deity or
an ancestor to help the deceased in the
afterlife.******
George
>
>
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