"Mantiklos" Bronze Statue From Thebes, Greece 700 BCE

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

Text circles up and down the legs. It is 8 inches (20.3 cm) high. Its original letter assignments from around 1900 were:
ΜΑΝΤΙΚΛΟΣΜΑΝΕΘΕΚΕFΕΚΑΒΟΛΟΙΑΡΓΥΡΟΤΟΧΣΟΙΤΑΣΔΕΚΑΤΑΣΤΥΔΕΦΟΙΒΕΔΙΔΟΙΧΑΡΙF
The initial letters gave this statuette its name. These assignments are not even close to being correct as one can see from the letter assignments on the pictures below.  Yet this fraud continues to be passed on by people who don't know any better.
Now at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Accession Number 03.997, Online at: https://collections.mfa.org/objects/152660

History

(October 21, 2023) This figure's artistic importance is described by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts: 


This bronze statue, which is among the most important works of early Greek sculpture anywhere in the world, embodies a transitional moment when an inherited desire for geometric order merged with a burgeoning interest in more closely reproducing natural forms. A sense of bodily mass and volume, created by the rounded curves of the shoulders, thighs, and chest, helps to relieve the schematic severity of the elongated figure, while the slightly parted legs and the differing positions of the two arms create a sense of motion and alleviate the otherwise insistent symmetry of the composition.

It was found in Thebes and sent to M. Hoffmann toward the end of 1894. In  1897 it was recorded in the collection of Count Michel Tyszkiewicz. In 1898 it was auctioned at the Hotel des Commissaires-Priseurs, 9 rue Drouot, Paris, June 8-10, lot 133 (trouvée à Thèbes). In March 1903 it was purchased by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts from Edward Perry Warren. It is dated by the Museum based on its artistic style. The clockwise outer text is blaming the motion powers for a drought while the counter-clockwise inner text is blaming the life powers.

It reads:

  1. (clockwise outer text, starts bottom left) Angry-ones are cursing the involvement of astrology-powers.  The dehydration is from the Moon-Eyed-Ones (astrology magic crafters).  |  Starvation is confused with dryness. Blockages have been fate-cursed. Considerations (focused emotions of emotion magic)  can involve shepherd's (magic crafter) pasture (starry night sky).   Correspondences are blocking Hu with their whirling 
  2. (counter-clockwise inner text, starts bottom right) Divine-life-powers can be irrigated by the Controllers (motion powers). The Greaser's (Selu/Selene) boundary does not affect the Reed-Boat (goddess Ayu). The Reed-Boat is confused. Confusion about astrology-magic can expel the guides (eagle-vultures).  Life-manifestations are not from envy.  Our enemies are motivated.
Thebes was the leader of the Boeotian confederacy and was a major rival of ancient Athens. It sided with the Persians during their 480 BCE invasion of Greece under Xerxes I. Theban forces under the command of Epaminondas ended Spartan hegemony at the Battle of Leuctra in 371 BC, with the Sacred Band of Thebes, an elite military unit of male lovers celebrated as instrumental there. Macedonia would rise in power at the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC, bringing decisive victory to Philip II over an alliance of Thebes and Athens. Thebes was a major force in Greek history prior to its destruction by Alexander the Great in 335 BC, and was the most dominant city-state at the time of the Macedonian conquest of Greece. 

Line 2 is in the traditional right to left direction while line 1 is in the new Greek left to right direction.

Letters are mostly in the Etruscan style with a few in the Aegean Island style (Italic)

Translation of Right Leg Lines 1 and 2 in Akkadian (Med Text 45)

(read left to right. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Vowels are italic bold) 
  1. AGu  UYu  Ku  Le'u.  ṢaMu  INu  E.  |  EKu  EPu  EŠu. (Med 45.1)
  2. Di'u  IKu  ARu.  IPu  ETu  Yu  AMu.  AMu  TuŠu. (Med 45.2)
(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. Angry-ones are cursing the involvement of astrology-powers.  The dehydration is from the Moon-Eyed-Ones (astrology magic crafters).  |  Starvation is confused with dryness.
  2. Divine-life-powers can be irrigated by the Controllers (motion powers). The Greaser's (Selu/Selene) boundary does not affect the Reed-Boat (goddess Ayu). The Reed-Boat is confused.

Translation of Left Leg Lines 3 and 4 in Akkadian (Med Text 45)

(read left to right. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Vowels are italic bold) 
  1. Ṣe'u  UYu.  ANu  Ku  Re'u  Ta'u.  Šu  Ṣe'u  Ḫu  A  Ṣu''u (Med 45.3)
  2. IŠu  Tu  AṢu  GeRu.  Du  E  Qi'u.  YaBu  EDu (Med 45.4)
(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. Blockages have been fate-cursed. Considerations (focused emotions of emotion magic)  can involve shepherd's (magic crafter) pasture (starry night sky).   Correspondences are blocking Hu with their whirling 
  2. Confusion about astrology-magic can expel the guides (eagle-vultures).  Life-manifestations are not from envy.  Our enemies are motivated.