Etruscan Ritual Bowl Text 525 BCE

Etruscan Ritual Bowl Text

(October 9, 2023, updated January 3, 2025) Letter assignments by Olmsted.  This text example was found in the Etruscan City of Vulci in 1848. The bowl is dated to between 550 and 500 BCE based on its pottery style. The letter style is Aegean but it is one of the first written in the Greek/Latin direction of left to right. It is now in the Louvre (Numéro d'entrée: MN 60 Numéro catalogue: F 82). Online at: https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010269945

Translation in Akkadian (Med Text 42)

(read right to left. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Verbs are italic bold)  
  1. Nu  E  ANu  [1]  Re'u.  Zu  E  Pa'u  YaHu.  Zu  E  Nu. (Med Text 42.1)

(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. Revelations (of fate) can make ineffective considerations of [word] by the shepherds. Emanation's can make ineffective the network-birds for Yahu (YH). Emanations are not from revelations.

Comment: "Considerations" are focused emotions of emotion magic. "Shepherds" are magic crafters which are primarily associated with astrology magic (a form of emotion magic)  involving the dark new moon god Su. "Emanations are life powers (fertility-fluids) flowing to earth which when manifested directly are rain, sunlight, and heat.