Etruscan Calchas Mirror 350 BCE

(December 27, 2024)  Etruscan mirror now at the  Gregorian Etruscan Museum of the Vatican.  Letter assignments by Olmsted.  Photo from Wikimedia commons at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miroir_%C3%A9trusque_de_Calchas.jpg

The letter style is Etruscan. It was found at the Etruscan city of Vulci. Style experts date it to the 400's BCE. The image is of a winged man holding a liver over a headless goose on a table. A winged man indicates that this is the Druid god Ayu. The whole image is surrounded by a grape vine full of grapes indicating abundance of both life and wine (a motion power energizer). According to the text, the goose liver is telling Ayu that anger associates both divine power classes which will harm his ability to bring prosperity.

The text is not the Greek Calchas which is spelled Κάλχας in Homer. This mirror has different lettering and is in a different letter style than what is used in Greek.

Translation in Akkadian (Med Text 64)

(read right to left. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Verbs are italic bold.  (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)
Letter Chart Used: Aegean Letter Lineage
  1. Šu  AGu  Šu  AZu

In English

  1. Similar anger makes similar associations