Med 48 Duenos Inscription 600 BCE

Photo of the Duenos inscription as displayed at the Altes Museum in Berlin. Kernos were for holding ritual supplies.Photo from Gfawkes05 via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Duenos.jpg
Rome in 600 BCE showing the Quirinale hill where the kernos was found.

Roman Duenos Kernos Inscription 600 BCE

(December 30, 2023) A kernos (Greek: κέρνος or κέρχνος, plural kernoi) is a pottery or stone tray for holding ritual supplies. It is most commonly found associated with temples. This form seems to have initially made in stone before being made in pottery. It was abundant in the early Minoan and Cycladic civilizations from 3,000 BCE onwards. This one has an educational inscription for instructing new magic crafters in the way of emotion and astrological magic.

The vase was bought by the Altes Museum in Berlin from an antiquarian by Heinrich Dressel shortly after he acquired it. It was discovered in 1880 by workers who were digging the foundation of a building near the newly opened Via Nazionale in Rome. This was in the valley between the Quirinal Hill and the Viminal Hill. More precisely it was found on the south slope of the Quirinal, near the church of San Vitale, Rome. Dressel was told the place was supposed to have been a burial site.

It reads:

  1. Yahu and frustrations can cause emotion-curses (from humans).  Neglect of fate-curses (from astrology) on life-emanations cause-envy.  Emotions can move the fertility-fluids.  (But) Omens make ineffective those replacements.  Does not astrology-magic make-motion? Re-assign the divine-powers nesting the fertility-fluid emanations.  Can not life-emanations be fate-cursed? Eagle-vultures are nesting emanations not movements. 
  2. The life-manifestation-power's involvement is ineffective.  Emotional-affects of the facade (night sky) can motivate openings. The sky-shell can motivate the re-assignments of fertility-fluids.  That emotional-power makes ineffective the fertility-fluids.  Do not emotional-affects create ineffectiveness? Emotional-affects from the moon-eyed-ones can supervise movements.  Fertility-fluids are from the divine's allocations. Those pasture-powers (night sky) are being manifested. 
  3. The association of astrology-magic with motion cannot emotionally affect the life-emanations.  Yahu's energizing is ineffective.  The pasture's (night sky's) omens don't frustrate Ayu.  Energize those. The shepherd (magic crafters) cannot fate-curse emanations.

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duenos_inscription#cite_note-8

Side of A Duenos Kernos. Photo upside down and enhanced. Photo from Gfawkes05 via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Duenos.jpg

Side C of Duenos Kernos from Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Collection of Antiquities (2003) Ident. No.: 30894, 3. Upside down bottom image (white balanced) shows the text right side up. The drawing matches the photo quite well.

https://id.smb.museum/object/681091/drillingsgef%C3%A4%CE%B2-sog--duenosgef%C3%A4%C3%9F-mit-fr%C3%BChlateinischer-inschrift

This drawing of the Duenos inscription was made by Heinrich Dressel who bought it in Rome from some workmen. Labels added by Olmsted. Illustration from Hermes. Zeitschrift für classische Philologie 16 (1881).

(December 30, 2023)  Letter style is Etruscan. 

Translation of Front Face in Akkadian (Med Text 48)

(Read right to left. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Vowels are italic bold) 
  1. Ya'u  U  EZu  A  TuDu.  EGu  U'a  Zu  Qi'u.  IMu  EDu  Mu.  ITu  A  TeNu  E.  Ya  Tu  EDu.  ENu  Di'u  Ba'u  Zu  Mu.  Ya  Zu  UYu.  Ru  Ba'u  Zu  Ya  EDu. (Med 48.1)  
  2. Du  Ku  E.  Ne'u  ZaMu  EDu  Pu.  EBu  EDu  ENu  Mu.  A  Ne'u  Mu  E.  Ya  Ne'u  MaDu E.  Ne'u  INu  EMu  EDu.  Mu  A  Di'u  ZiTu  A.  Ta'u  Du.  (Med 48.2) 
  3. AZu  Tu  EDu  Na'u  Ya  Zu.  Ya'u  Gu  E.  Ta'u  ITu  EZu  Ya  AYu.  Gi  A.  E  A.  ReYu  U'a  Ya  Zu   (Med 48.3)  

(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. Yahu and frustrations can cause emotion-curses (from humans).  Neglect of fate-curses (from astrology) on life-emanations cause-envy.  Emotions can move the fertility-fluids.  (But) Omens make ineffective those replacements.  Does not astrology-magic cause-motion? Re-assign the divine-powers nesting the fertility-fluid emanations.  Can not life-emanations be fate-cursed? Eagle-vultures are nesting emanations not movements. 
  2. The life-manifestation-power's involvement is ineffective.  Emotional-affects of the facade (night sky) can motivate openings. The sky-shell can motivate the re-assignments of fertility-fluids.  That emotional-power makes ineffective the fertility-fluids.  Do not emotional-affects create ineffectiveness? Emotional-affects from the moon-eyed-ones can supervise movements.  Fertility-fluids are from the divine's allocations. Those pasture-powers (night sky) are being manifested.
  3. The association of astrology-magic with motion cannot emotionally affect the emanations.  Yahu's energizing is ineffective.  The pasture's (night sky's) omens don't frustrate Ayu.  Energize those. The shepherd (magic crafters) cannot fate-curse the life-emanations.