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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Clyde Winters: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Myra Wysinger: [qb] Professor Winters: This fragmented votive tablet shows Meroitic inscriptions, could you translate for me please? Thank you King Tanyidamani [Tanwetamani] Meroitic Period 110-90 BC [IMG]http://wysinger.homestead.com/tanyidamani80.jpg[/IMG] . [/qb][/QUOTE]Reading this same inscription right to left we find the following: TRANSLITERATION OF THE VOTIVE TABLET OF KING TAŃYIDAMANI 1…….. 2. d lm……. 3. tńyi[dmni]…… 4. d h ni 5. lw r i n 6. p e ĥ n 7. d qr i 8. to….wi 9. to…..no 10. qo…. l e 11. W-ne lw kl 12. Mo k-i* nea 13. tb d tm k-i* Translation [b] 1.[ ………] 2. Leave a legacy firmly established…….. 3. Tańyidamani……… 4. Bequeath a radiant offering. 5. Indeed send out glory and Good. 6. Vouchsafe Blessings and Good. 7.Leave this legacy Monarch (as is the) tradition. 8.To ignite[……] honor 9. To ignite[……] anew. 10. The Renewer[Apedemak]….to grant a blessing. 11. The Commander bears Glory. 12.Initiate (this) great obligation at this moment. 13.Announce out loud/in a lofty voice this lasting legacy to produce (this) duty.[/b] *In Meroitic the affix /-i/ is used to form agent nouns. The Meroitic k= ‘necessary’, with the addition of the /-i/, e.g., k-i= ‘oblig [/QB][/QUOTE]
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