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If you copy signs from a Greco-Roman period inscription, chances are good you'll copy a sign that's missing from some Greco-Roman sign lists. There are just so
by wl 4y ago
If you copy signs from a Greco-Roman period inscription, chances are good you'll copy a sign that's missing from some Greco-Roman sign lists. There are just so many more signs used in that period than the earlier periods—and the work of cataloging them is still ongoing.
Looking at various pictures, I see many mistakes and the signs are badly copied. Even assuming Egypt sent their worst scribes to Australia, why would they be copying fragments of standard funerary texts—for example—on random rock walls far away from anything resembling an Egyptian burial?
- ncmncm 4y agoWhat funerary texts?
- wl 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gosford_petroglyphs.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gosford_petroglyphs.jpg ꜥnḫ ḏt n ḫꜣt... I mean, I'd need more context to do a real translation, but there's the "living forever" thing (ꜥnḫ ḏt) that comes after the name of the deceased, or maybe it's di (sign before is cutoff) ꜥnḫ ḏt ("given life forever"). There's the ḫꜣt relating to a corpse. That text is talking about a dead guy.