The emergence of commercial scale, cross-cultural trade at the start of the Bronze Age required a common language to enable that trade. What gradually emerged was an alphabetic form of Akkadian inspired by the dominance of the Assyrian traders in Anatolia. Because temple complexes were a major Bronze Age economic engine they were the first non-commercial adopters. Significantly, the largest Alphabetic Akkadian texts are Pagan religious/philosophical debates. This is a new and developing field of research showing that the old assumptions about each political and ethnic group writing in their own language is false.
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David Olmsted deposited Alphabetic Akkadian Lexicon – 4th Edition 2023 in the group
Alphabetic Akkadian on Humanities Commons 6 months ago
The Akkadian of this lexicon was spoken by Neolithic farmers who migrated to Europe from the Middle East starting around 6500 BCE. This lexicon combined with the new genetic migration information demonstrates that Europe had its own ancient Pagan civilization just as important and innovative as any other ancient civilization. This lexicon begins…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Translations of Akkadian Graffiti at Wadi el-Ḥôl Egypt (1500 BCE) in the group
Alphabetic Akkadian on Humanities Commons 10 months, 3 weeks ago
This is the first translation of the two graffiti texts found at the exit of Wadi el-Ḥôl (“Wadi of Terror”) in the Qena bend area of Egypt. Their signs represent a transitional stage between Minoan Phaistos Disk and Linear A. These texts were found by John and Deborah Darnell during their 1993-94 excavation season (Darnell, and all 2005). Th…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Lachish Ivory Comb Text Translation From Minoan Linear A (1650 BCE) in the group
Alphabetic Akkadian on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
The text signs on this comb are Minoan Linear A and not the Proto-Canaanite of Serabit el-Khadim as claimed in its 2022 archaeology report. Like most pre-classical linear texts found by archaeology, the language of this text is Akkadian which was the language of the Neolithic farming culture which spread into Europe from the Near-East starting…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Inscription on Nestors’ Cup (730 BCE) is not Greek but is Alphabetic Akkadian in the group
Alphabetic Akkadian on Humanities Commons 1 year, 7 months ago
The text on Nestor’s Cup (750-700 BCE) is not Greek as many claim but is actually Alphabetic Akkadian. Its three-line text is a debate about the cause of a drought. The first line blames the life network goddess Ayu and her eagle vultures while the second line blames emotion magic with its owls (like the Athenian owl). Alphabetic Akkadian was t…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Heraklez (Hercules) Originated in Etruria as Revealed by Pottery Images having Bidirectional Alphabetic Akkadian Pottery Texts (550 BCE) in the group
Alphabetic Akkadian on Humanities Commons 1 year, 8 months ago
Heroes and Demons entered the northern Mediterranean culture between 600 and 500 BCE when the culture was transforming from the magical Ancient Pagan Paradigm to a lordified Paradigm which forced deity personification making them lords in a royal pantheon instead of powers. This caused an explosion in the number of deities and other divine realm…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Introducing Demons – Reinterpretation of Images on Etruscan Tombs and Pottery Forced by Their Alphabetic Akkadian Translations (500-400 BCE) in the group
Alphabetic Akkadian on Humanities Commons 1 year, 9 months ago
The past inability to translate Etruscan texts has meant that the interpretation of Etrucan art has been mostly speculation. This interpretation has been made even more difficult because this was the time when new demon imagery (Cyclops, Skadi) not seen in the past was being introduced as Etruscan religious culture was changing from the magical…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Mediterranean Akkadian Lexicon 3rd Edition – 2022 in the group
Alphabetic Akkadian on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
This third edition of Mediterranean Akkadian is bigger and better with more words and more refined word definitions based upon a larger number of translations. Linear (letter-like) Akkadian writing first appeared in the Mediterranean at the start of the Bronze Age on Minoan Crete around 1800 BCE. This first writing was used by temple/palace…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Many Minoan Linear A Ritual Supply Texts Surrounding a Drought Translated in Alphabetic Akkadian (1700 BCE) in the group
Alphabetic Akkadian on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
The commercial level trading which emerged at the start of the Bronze Age was made possible by a common written language. That language was Akkadian in its syllabic (cuneiform) form, its phonetic form (Phaistos Disk and these Minoan Linear A tablets) and all the early alphabetic texts prior to the rise of Greek and Latin. These translated Minoan…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Translation of the Minoan Phaistos Disk in Alphabetic Akkadian (Updated) in the group
Alphabetic Akkadian on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months ago
The Phaistos Disk is the missing link connecting Mesopotamian cuneiform Akkadian with its Mediterranean alphabetic forms. As such it is a hybrid phonetic and alphabetic text dating to about 1800 BCE. It is a philosophical/religious debate about the cause of a recent drought, the first written debate in history. The key to its translation was its…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Dan Stele Translation in Alphabetic Akkadian (840 BCE) in the group
Alphabetic Akkadian on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
This fragmentary text is a debate about the cause of a drought between a Phoenician magic crafter devoted to the motion power class of the Ancient Pagan Paradigm and an Israelite life priest devoted to the life-growth powers. Each side blames the drought on the ineffectiveness of the other. Because the stele fragments were used as fill for or in a…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited The Pre-Classical Pagan Worldviews based on Archeology and Extrapolation from Primary Bronze Age/Early Iron Age Texts in the group
Alphabetic Akkadian on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
Accurate knowledge of ancient Pagan culture has been lost because it was superseded by the Lordified, Revealed, Dualist (LRD) religious paradigm of the modern and classical eras. This lack of cultural understanding has corrupted archeological interpretation and prevented until recently the translation of the earliest alphabetic texts around the…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Penptah (Tabnit) Sarcophagus Text from Sidon is a Phoenician / Israelite Debate over the Great Bronze Age Drought (1170 BCE) – Updated in the group
Alphabetic Akkadian on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
This Phoenician letter style text dating to 1170 BCE was written in the empire language of Alphabetic Akkadian which was used by traders and temples for cross-cultural communication. Phoenician, like all other alphabetic writing, derives from the commercial Minoan writing tradition but is a separate letter style lineage apart from the lineages of…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Translation of Bronze Etruscan Piacenza Liver Reveals Liver Divination Practices (400 BCE) in the group
Alphabetic Akkadian on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
While liver divination was known to have been practiced by the ancients no one really know what that involved until now. This object is a bronze liver covered in writing which describes a divination result about the cause of a drought. This bronze liver was found in the northern Italian Po valley in 1877. The liver is divided into four main…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited The “Bilingual” Cippi of Malta Translated in Alphabetic Akkadian (499 BCE) in the group
Alphabetic Akkadian on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
The early claim that these two cippi are bilingual in Greek and Phoenician is shown to be false. Therefore, these texts cannot be used as the basis to understand the non-attested language of Phoenician. This historical fraud originated with Jacques Barthélemy (1716-1795). Phoenician is a letter style of Alphabetic Akkadian and not a language.…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Punic War Text Translations from Carthage in Alphabetic Akkadian (246 to 146 BCE) in the group
Alphabetic Akkadian on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
Two well preserved Punic texts from Carthage are translated and fully justified according to the scholar’s standard showing that Phoenician letter style texts are actually in the Akkadian empire language just like all other pre-Hellenistic Mediterranean texts. The black temple plaque has a poignant yet sophisticated argument blaming first one d…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Alphabetic Akkadian Gravestone Translations from Sidon Show Differing Religious Themes (330 – 0 BCE) in the group
Alphabetic Akkadian on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
These seven alphabetic gravestone texts and one-coin texts from Sidon date to the Hellenistic era based upon their religious themes and their Greek Island letter styles. In contrast, one earlier coin style from Sidon from the Persian period has the Phoenician letter style. Their underlying language is Akkadian which was the empire language of…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Translation of el-Khadr Spearheads Found Near Bethlehem Show they were used in Rituals involving Yahu – 900 BCE in the group
Alphabetic Akkadian on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
This paper translates the inscriptions found on five bronze spearheads found near the village of el-Khadr located 2 miles (5 km) west of Bethlehem. Their underlying language is Alphabetic Akkadian and not Hebrew. These spearheads were part of a cache of 26 found near Bethlehem which were first published by Frank Moore Cross in 1954 and 1980. Four…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Translation of Calf-Bearer Text from Pre-Parthenon Athens in Alphabetic Akkadian References Drought (499 BCE) – Updated in the group
Alphabetic Akkadian on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
This paper provides evidence that Alphabetic Akkadian was being used in the Greek sphere of influence as an ancient authority temple language (like Latin in near modern Europe) prior to the mid-400’s BCE when the nationalistic fervor surrounding their war with the Persian empire replace it with Greek. Its Greek use is also evidenced by the 499 B…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Archeological Texts Show a Religious Conflict Component in the Naxos Island Revolt (499 to 494 BCE) in the group
Alphabetic Akkadian on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
As revealed by later Greek records, the Naxos revolt was a socio-economic conflict between rural interests and commercial trading interests which led to the much larger Greek/Persian wars. While the socio-economic component is true, these three archaeological texts also show that the revolt was triggered by a drought and sustained by religious…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Nora Stone from Sardinia Translated in Alphabetic Akkadian Gives Statement about Purpose of Phoenician Temples (730 BCE) in the group
Alphabetic Akkadian on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
The text on this large stone stele is a defense of Phoenician temple activity. Consequently, it was likely placed outside the main temple in the Phoenician trading port of Nora on the southern coast of Sardinia. Its theme is also Phoenician in that it is promoting emotion magic to overcome a drought. This drought is most likely the drought of 730…[Read more]
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