<bron90.htm> [Bronze Age Text]
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CLICK to enlarge Decipherment of the first three lines
of San Telmo stele in Spain, an example of the Iberian texts, undecipherable
until the match between the letters and the signs of the Algonquian syllabary
was noticed in 1979. The translation
reads: (1) House of the
Apothecary, (2) And of remedies for illnesses, (3) Buy from me herbal medicines. This inscription, now in the San
Telmo Museum, is one of the last known uses of the script in Spain, dating
from medieval times. Other examples
range back to the Bronze Age (Fell 1982). |
