<bron12.htm> [Bronze Age Text]

A fishing charm or prayer from Bohuslän, Sweden in which the Tifinag letters are arranged to form a rebus depicting a fishing line.

One solution may be obtained by reading the letters upward in the sequence shown, to yield L-K H-W-I H-W-I, which may be interpreted as Lak(s) hafim havim = "May we haul salmon from the sea." Another solution is obtained by reading the letters in the opposite direction (downward), to yield "May our keeled vessel haul [fish] from the sea." There is another similar rebus at Bohuslän, and is shown in the lower right. It may read as lak(s) taka haki = "May salmon take the hook." (Fell 1982).

The vessel is called the Serpent and a serpent is shown between the letters that spell the word.

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