Athenian Diplion Pottery Text 750 BCE

The text is Etruscan in style and the language is Akkadian, not Greek.

Diplion Pottery

Dipylon meaning "Double Pylons" was a double gate of ancient Athens outside of which was a cemetery and potters work area.

This videa describe the most famous piece from the cemetary called the Dipylon Amphora, c. 755-750 B.C.E. It is on display at the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker & Dr. Beth Harris. 

Dipylon Oinochoe (Wine Jug) With Other Early Inscriptions At Athen's Museum of Archaeology

Photo by Dorieo via Wikimedia Commons. Taken in August 2007.  Online at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NAMA_Dipylon_Oinochoe.JPG

Dipylon Text Start

Photo by Durutomo via Wikimedia Commons. Taken in March 2010.  Online at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dipylon_Inscription.JPG

Dipylon Text Middle

Photo by Durutomo via Wikimedia Commons. Taken in March 2010.  Online at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dipylon_Inscription.JPG

(October 10, 2023)

Translation of Beginning Text in Akkadian (Med Text 44.1)

(read left to right. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Vowels are italic bold) 
  1. Ne'u  SuNu  U  Ne'u  RaṬu  EZu  Ta'u.  NaŠu  ANu  Ta'u  Nu.  A  Tu,  A  Le'u  ...
(Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration)

In English

  1. Emotionally-affecting the rod (motivating divine fertility fluids) and emotionally-affecting the fluid-channels can frustrate the pasture (astrological powers of star filled night sky).  Dream-interpretations from considerations (focused emotions of emotion magic) can reveal the pasture.  That astrological-magic, those astrological-powers .....

(October 10, 2023)

Translation of Middle Text in Akkadian (Med Text 44.1)

(read left to right. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Vowels are italic bold) 
  1.  ... Tu  A  Tu  AŠu  A  Zu.  Yu  EZu  Ta'u.  Ta'u   Lu   Ḫ......
(Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration)

In English

  1. ...  of astrological-magic,  that astrological-magic which can spew-forth those emanations. Is not lunar-energy being pastured?  The pasture is lacking ....

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