Runestones of the Dump (Pardieiro) From Odemira 500 BCE

The Pardieiro (Dump) Necropolis is located on the western slope of the Virga mountain range between Odemira and Ourique. It had a good view of the setting sun. This is an 1873 Portuguese naval map showing the Mira River valley where it empties into the Atlantic. Photo from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rio_Mira_na_Carta_Nautica_de_1873.png

Runestone 1 of Pardieiro From Odemira, Portugal - 500 BCE

Estela do Pardieiro I, Odemira, Portugal; 103x56 cm. Now at Museum of Writing of the Southwest in Almodovar, Portugal. Photo by Angel M. Felicisimo at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/elgolem/51987037402/in/album-72157715068387073/

(Sept 4, 2023) This runestone is one of three found at a necropolis on the western slope of a mountain (see map below). This necropolis consisted of 11 central steles covering pit graves carved out of the  base rock and covered by large slabs. Some of these had decorations carved on them. Two other graves were found outside this central core.

After one of these runestones were found, the necropolis was archeologically excavated starting in 1971  under the coordination of Caetano de Mello Beirão and Virgílio Hipólito Correia.  It was dated to 500 BCE.  

Translation of Text in Akkadian (Med Text 42)

(read right to left. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Verbs in italic bold. Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words)
Chart Used: Aegean Lineage, Letter style is Iberian
  1. E  Gu  Mu.  Gi  U  Du  A  Se'u  LeYu  Nu  A'u  ||  (2nd to last rune is a combines the letters N and A to save space. This combining of letters in a single rune is also seen in Scandinavian texts)
  2. Ṣu  Ga'u  Nu.  Ga'u  G[]  .....  

In English

  1. Nothing is energizing the fertility-fluids. Energy and life-manifestations will result from the inhibition of fate's revelations about emotion-powers.  ||
  2. Activity (motion-powers) can break-through the revelations (of fate).  The break-through ....
Stele of Pardieiro III, Odemira, Portugal; 77x40 cm. Museum of Southwest Writing, Almodôvar. Photo by Angel M. Felicisimo at:https://www.flickr.com/photos/elgolem/51988826719/in/album-72157715068387073/

Runestone 3 of Pardieiro

(Sept 2, 2023, updated March 20, 2025)

Translation of Text in Akkadian (Med Text 43)

(read right to left. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Verbs in italic bold. Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words)
Chart Used: Aegean Lineage, Letter style is Iberian
  1. A  A  Lu  AQu  U  Nu  Pa'u
  2. (upside down) [ ]'  Lu  Mu 

In English

  1. These are resulting from the lack of hope with the revelations about the network-birds
  2. [  ] are lacking fertility-fluids