Hekatompedon Decree, Athens 485 BCE

Snakes at the right and left corners of the East pediment of the Hekatompedon (Now in the Athens, acropolis museum). These would represent Hekate. Photo from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snakes-hekatompedon.jpg

The piedmont's center had a pair of gender ambiguous lions (breast sack with male lion mane) eating a calf. These lions possibly represented Thu who would later be personified as Athena (meaning "powers of Thu."). This deity was the power enabling emotion magic. Photo from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lioness-hekatompedon.jpg

Hekatompedon History

The Hekatompedon or Hekatompedos (Ancient Greek: ἑκατόμπεδος, was an ancient Greek temple on the Acropolis of Athens built from limestone in the Archaic period and placed in the position of the present Parthenon.

The temple was built around 570–550 BC. It was demolished by the Athenians in 490 BC after the victory over the Persians at the Battle of Marathon to build a larger temple known as the Older Parthenon. The latter was destroyed in 480 BC by the returning Persians in the Destruction of Athens. In its spot was built the present day Parthenon. The existence of the Hekatompedon is mentioned in a few anceint Greek sources. Its foundations have disappeared, but architectural and sculptural elements found in the southern part of the Mycenaean wall of Acropolis of Athens have been assigned by scholars to this temple.

Also assigned to this temple are these fragments of a Druid Akkadian text which were found on the site.

HKAT'.M.P.ED. seems to be an Akkadian phrase meaning "Hekate's fertility-fluids being opened by motivation" or "Hu's Kate's fertility-fluids being opened by motivation" (the /os/ suffix is a Greek noun ending). What is significant here is that "Kate" is being spelled out with inner vowels, a trait which the Greeks added when writing their own spoken language which was emerging about this time. The "motivation" here is the result of emotion-magic or astrology magic (mentioned in the text).

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hekatompedon

(January 1, 2025) Never before translated. Now at Epigraphical Museum, Athens, EM 6794 (Metope B)

Translation (Med Text 71)

... The thread's openings (through the sky-shell) can't be made ineffective. : Astrology-owls (Athenian owls) can't render emanations. Similarly [word] cannot reveal astrology-magic for Ayu's [word]. Reassign the astrological-owl's emanations for that.
... Don't emotionally-affect the emanations (with emotion magic) : Thu's irrigation .... Starve the association with astrology-magic.
... monitoring. Reassign the break-outs [2 words] : Divert ..... Astrology-magic for Ayu [can pr]od the emanations (rain). Astrology-magic does not affect the Reed-boat (Ayu)
.... does not affect the emanations. : Astrology-magic's attendants (owls) will not affect that harbor (rain making sky-shell) : The astrological-owls will not affect .... . Eagle vultures can layout the revelations of astrology-magic.

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Temple_of_Athena#/media/File:EPMA-6794-IGI(3)48-Sacred_law-1.JPG

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigraphical_Museum

Translation Justifications

(January 1, 2025) Never before translated. Now at Epigraphical Museum, Athens, EM 6794 (Metope B)

Translation of Lines 1 and 2 in Akkadian

(read left to right. 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 Style is Aegean 500 BCE. Letter Chart: Aegean Letter Lineage

...G. Qu Pu E Ya : Ḫu’u Za'u Ya Zu. Šu R[1] Nu Tu AYu G[1] ENu Ḫu’u Zu A
... Z M E. Ne'u Ya Zu : Ṭu IKu E .... R. EKu AZu Tu.

In English

... The thread's openings (through the sky-shell) can't be made ineffective. : Astrology-owls (Athenian owls) can't render emanations. Similarly [word] cannot reveal astrology-magic for Ayu's [word]. Reassign the astrological-owl's emanations for that.
... Don't emotionally-affect the emanations (with emotion magic) : Thu's irrigation .... Starve the association with astrology-magic.

(January 1, 2025) Never before translated. Now at Epigraphical Museum, Athens, EM 6794 (Metope B)

Translation of Lines 3 and 4 in Akkadian

(read left to right. 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 Style is Aegean 500 BCE. Letter Chart: Aegean Letter Lineage

...T ATu. ENu Ga'u [3] : LaRu A ....... Ṭu AYu [K]' Zu. Tu AMu Ya
... Zu Ya : Tu AḪu Ya ERu A : Ḫu'u Y E ...... ḪY E [1]' . Ru Le'u Nu Tu.

In English

... monitoring. Reassign the break-outs [2 words] : Divert ..... Astrology-magic for Ayu [can pr]od the emanations (rain). Astrology-magic does not affect the Reed-boat (Ayu)
.... does not affect the emanations. : Astrology-magic's attendants (owls) will not affect that harbor (rain making sky-shell) : The astrological-owls will not affect .... . Eagle vultures can layout the revelations of astrology-magic.

Translation of Main Right Section in Akkadian (lines 18, 19, 20)

(read left to right. 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 Style is Aegean 500 BCE. Letter Chart: Aegean Letter Lineage

...T Ya Zu. Ta'u Ya Ta'u
... ReYu TaRu I'u. Ne'u Bu E La'u
.... AZu EMu G' [1] E IKu AYu Tu

In English

... don't [verb] the emanations. Don't pasture the pasture (starry night sky)
..... The shepherd-priests can emotionally-change Yahu (I'u). Emotionally-affecting the nourishments can make ineffective the layout (of fate as defined in the night sky)
... associations can supervise the breaking-through (the sky-shell). [Word] can make ineffective the irrigation of Ayu's astrology-magic.