>not only this. there is the "oa" beofre "a" in the next syllable.
That guy from Banat in the 70s interpreted the word "zoapan"
as the Romanian "tz(e)ap&n," in an allegedly Banate variant
"tzoap&n" (here in the sense of "mighty, powerful"). I vaguely
remember that he interpreted the 1st word "boila" as a similar
word of Latin extraction meaning "boss" (I can't remember it).
And the last one TAISE he read as "tãte" in the Banat sub-dialect:
"tãcie" ['t&-Sje] ("all" | Lat. "tot--").
In your text variant, the 1st word looks like "buiela," while in
Vassil's transscript it looks rather like "bula". (Well, Bulã is
also a... Romanian mythic character. ;=))
>It seems is the same as the inscription found on a cup
>which was found in 1799 in the village Sa[n]nicolaul Mare.
It's the same text (supplement 1, no. 7; on Vassil's page, the
Greek characters are of the nice antiqua kind; those in your
GIF seem to imitate the original ones.
>Alex
George