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Great find!

This is an beautiful piece of history. I'll be sure to follow this thread
to see what is learned about this artifact.

Not only is this a good find, I am curious as to the message contained. It would be hilarious if it were a simple inventory list or worse, a citation for not properly parking one's cart.... but if it is something of more import, such as a royal missive, then the value would really be more!

did they find any other related artifacts?

The stone was cresent shaped. The god Sin was apparently god of the moon.
So would it have been an offering or perhaps a talisman?
Did the christians demonise this old god for their own benifit like they did with pan?
It is a "sin" to worship the pagan god Sin, off with ya head

How could it have gotten there? One thing missing from the report was at what level it was found and when it arrived at that location. That would give a clue.

This quote from the linked magazine page I found disconcerting:

The inscription was translated as a dedication to the Mesopotamian moon god Sin, the father of Ninurta who, for centuries, was the main deity worshiped far to the east in the city of Nippur in Mesopotamia. Nippur was considered a holy city and a pilgrimage site with a scribal school that generated literary texts.

Sin was not Ninurta's father. Sin was Shamash's father. Ninurta's father was Enlil, builder of the city mentioned in the quote (Nippur.)

Nippur has always been known as "Enlil's city." Sin has not so much to do with Nippur, though Ninurta, as the daughter of the city's holy founder, obviously would.

I don't think I'm wrong here. What kind of Archaeology rag makes errors like these (if they are errors - I'm not an expert.)

By the way, the city mentioned - the one built by Enlil - Nippur. It's called Nafar now and still is occupied.

Originally, it's name was Nibiru.

Harte

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Excellent find.
Malta is such an amazing place. Hopefully before I'm fertilizing Daisies I'll one day visit there.

Originally posted by SLAYER69
S & F

Excellent find.
Malta is such an amazing place. Hopefully before I'm fertilizing Daisies I'll one day visit there.

Go to Gozo too - you'll like the hill top villages

I love this stuff.

It seems more and more evidence comes to fore that indicates a much larger interaction between far reaching peoples, and even long term world trade in some cases much further back than is accepted in the common historical paradigm.

Other things pointing at world trade could be found with the cocoa 'extract' mummies of Egypt. How did a certain white powdery substance native to and only existing in South America wind up in toxicology reports of Egyptian mummies from thousands of years before the common historical paradigm says that travel across the Atlantic occurred?

The the mystery of Maize depicted in some ancient Chinese accountsis another example; maize only existing in the Americas.

Roman Amphora and other Roman artifacts have been found off the coast of Brazil.

One day perhaps the historical model will tie these together in finding that people got around quite a bit more than we thought they did, much earlier than we thought they did too.

i am wondering....a 13th century artifact with Sumerian language/cuniform writing..


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_century_BC
... in the 13th century BC, is housed at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution.
The 13th century BC was the period from 1300 to 1201 BC. ..


Now i thought that the Sumerian era with their pantheon of Gods etc was way before 1,300bce

like they were thriving and had a far reaching empire and knowledge of the Heavens back around 6-5,000 bce


why would there be a 'Agate' (marble/crystal) Hawk Beak styled polished stone with engraved language being created so late in history?


others say the shape is reminescent of a crescent moon.. i see plenty of 'Hawk Beak' knives carried by tradespersons and hunters here in SC, and that image sure looks like a hawk beak to me...
look at either an Islam Crescent or the state flag of SC for a true 'crescent'




etched or carved Agate in 1300bce... so craftsmen were able to carve even sculpt the 13 crystal skulls, and we use this find as evidence that super hard rock could be fashioned by 'primitive' craftsmen and stone cutters/artists back then without diamond cutting tools... hmmmm


thanks for the article that can trigger a thousand thoughts