Scandinavian Inscription?

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From: "Yitzhak Sapir" <ys_arch...@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: sci.archaeology
Subject: Scandinavian Inscription?
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:13:21 -0000

I am writing this as part of follow up to a discussion on a mailing
list, and posting this to the two groups sci.archaeology and
sci.lang.

Regarding the artifact/inscription at the top of the following page:

http://www.viewzone.com/FTscandanavia.html

That is, this one: http://www.viewzone.com/scandanavia1.jpg

This is claimed to be an artifact from Scandinavia.

I would appreciate if it is possible to know:

1) Is this a known artifact? What artifact is this? Where is it from?
2) What is the script in the inscription?
3) What does it say?

Please forgive me if this is not an appropriate place. A response
of the form "This is a known inscription and is discussed in such
and such book, look it up." would be just great. I am not
interested in the website's theories of the nature of this and other
inscriptions.

Yitzhak Sapir

[Yusuf B Gursey]

ys_arch...@yahoo.com wrote:
> From: "Yitzhak Sapir" <ys_arch...@yahoo.com>
> Newsgroups: sci.archaeology
> Subject: Scandinavian Inscription?
> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:13:21 -0000
>

try soc.history.medieval . there are people there that could help you.

[Martin Möller]

Hello Yitzhak,

here you are:

http://eu.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/pd--11723680/sp--A/Stone_inscribed_with_a_dan
cer_flute_player_and_safaitic_inscription_1st_century_BC3rd_century_AD.htm

So, Scandinavia is the wrong direction (as I would have guessed too as I
have never seen anything similar in Scandinavia).

BTW: I found that artefact surprisingly quickly by images-googling "flute
player stone"...

Regards
Martin

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[Yitzhak Sapir]

Thank you very much! I didn't think to look it up this way.
I note that a search like that is dependent on the specific
words used "player" rather than "playing" for example. But
then, I just wanted to say thank you :-)

Yitzhak Sapir

[Yusuf B Gursey]

In sci.lang "Martin Möller" <ne...@webortage.de> wrote in <45bl0bF...@individual.net>:
: Hello Yitzhak,

: here you are:

: http://eu.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/pd--11723680/sp--A/Stone_inscribed_with_a_dan
: cer_flute_player_and_safaitic_inscription_1st_century_BC3rd_century_AD.htm

I found it at:

http://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/PD--11723680/SP--A/IGID--1349154/Stone_inscribed_with_a_dancer_flute_player_and_safaitic_inscription_1st_century_BC3rd_century_AD.htm?sOrig=CRT&sOrigId=33761&ui=8AEAB7DE3CDC439B96A6F367CB14E1E9

: So, Scandinavia is the wrong direction (as I would have guessed too as I

: Regards
: Martin

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