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Paper No.
1 An
Egyptian Shipwreck at Pitcairn Island (3 pp) Barry Fell 1-p 3
Decipherment of an Egyptian (Libyan dialect) rock
inscription from Pitcairn Island, Java, in the Pacific.
2
Polynesian Epigraphy -- A Report to the Society (2 pp) Barry Fell 1-p
6
Founding of The Epigraphic Society, 4 July 1974 as The Polynesian Epigraphic
Society.
3 The
Ancient Maori Votive Stele of the Pyramid of Ra on Mount Lavu in Eastern Java (6
pp) Barry Fell 1-p 8
Libyan script dated 304 AD.
4
Numerals on Ancient Maori Steles (8 pp) Barry Fell 1-p 14
Roman and Egyptian commerce with S. E. Asia.
5 Ritual
of the Dawn: Fragments of Ancient Maurian Chants in New Zealand Maori (6 pp) Barry
Fell 1-p 22
Mithraic religion apparent in ancient Maori
inscription.
6 The
bilingual Latin-Maori stele of Kaiu from Thullium (6 pp) Barry Fell 1-p
28
Tunisia: Numidian/Libyan
script. Maori = Mauri = Moors.
7 The
bilingual Latin- Maori stele of Rapa from Thullium (5 pp) Barry Fell 1-p
34
Numidian/Libyan & Amharic script.
8 The
bilingual Latin-Maori stele of Fawasa, Priest of the Oracle of Rono (4 pp) Barry
Fell 1-p 39
Tunisia Numidian/Libyan script.
9 The
bilingual. Punic-Maori stele of Weka, from Bordj-Zoubia, near Oued-Meliz,
Tunisia (4 pp) Barry Fell 1-p 43
Neo-Punic and Numidian.
10
Distribution of Ancient Maori Inscriptions written in Maurian (Numidian)
script (4 pp) Barry Fell 1-p 47
North Africa to Polynesia.
11 The
bilingual Latin-Maori. stele of Zakatutu from Thullium (3 pp) Barry Fell 1-p
51
Latin and Numidian/Libyan script.
12 Chronology of Ancient Maori Scripts (7 pp) Barry Fell 1-p 54
From @ 250 BC to 385 AD.
13 An
Ancient Maori inscription from Dakumba, Fiji (6 pp) Barry Fell 1-p 61
From @ 250 BC.
14 Carthaginian and
Other Graffiti from West Irian Caves (3 pp) Barry Fell 1-p 67
Carthaginian and other inscriptions in caves in West
Irian.
15 Ancient
Maori Mathematical and Scientific Hieroglyphs (4 pp) Barry Fell 1-p 70
West Irian and New Zealand.
16 The
Treaty of Taranaki, a Mediaeval Stele of New Zealand (5 pp) Barry Fell 1-p
74
Numidian-Libyan script; Hawaikian dialect; stele dated to 1450 AD.
17 Newly
Deciphered Naval Records of Ptolemy III (2 pp) Barry Fell 1-p 79
Western New Guinea; Libyan-Egyptian inscriptions c. 232 BC.
18 A
Proposition by Eratosthenes, An Astronomer of the Delta Country (6 pp) Barry
Fell 1-p 81
Inscriptions in Numidian script and Egyptian
hieroglyphs found in caves in West Irian.
19 Maui on
Eratosthenes — An additional fragment from Sosorra (2 pp) Barry Fell 1-p
87
Inscriptions in a cave at Sosorra relating to
Eratosthenes' calculations.
20 Correspondence (5
pp):
Letter: Conditions for membership. (1 p) Conger Williams 1-p
89
Requests conditions for membership in The Epigraphic
Society.
Letter: Back numbers of Occasional Publications. (1 p) Harold S. Gladwin
1-p 89
Requests availability of back numbers of ESOP.
Letter: Egyptian coins found in Australia. (1
p) Mrs. E. Dooner 1-p 89
Egyptian coins found in Australia allegedly
dated to 4000 BP (questionable since no coins were struck in Egypt before 332 BC
according to Norman Totten).
Letter: Navigation equipment depicted in West Irian Caves. (2 pp) F. E. Bassett 1-p
90
Inscriptions in West Irian caves show early navigational equipment and
connection to Egypt.
Letter: Engraved rocks in New Zealand. (1 p) John C. Yaldwyn 1-p
91
Five sites on North Island; cave paintings on South Island
Letter: Bronze Age trade routes from the Red Sea to Southeast Asia? (1 p) Edwin
Doran Jr. 1-p 92
Study of boat types in the areas concerned show possible ancient trade
connections between them.
Letter: ESOP in Peabody Museum in Salem, MA. (1 p) Ernest Dodge 1-p 93
Letter: ESOP in the National Museum of New Zealand. (1 p) Roger G. Chapman 1-p 93
Letter: Undeciphered American
Rock Inscriptions. (1 p) George Carter 1-p 93
Provides as yet undeciphered inscriptions from the Americas
Letter: Egyptian hieroglyphs. (1 p) Charles Speel 1-p 93
Charles Speel, Chairman, Dept. of Religious Studies, Monmouth College (IL)
comments on Fell's work.
Letter: Threat to the Moanalua stela "Pohaku ka Luahine." (1 p) Norman
Totten 1-p 93
Largest free-standing petroglyph stone in Oahu, Hawaii, needs protection.
Letter: Gift of petroglyph photographs by Hawaiian membership. (1 p) Ruth
Hanner & John & Frances Holt 1-p 93
Photos given by Ruth Hanner, Chairman of the Petroglyph Committee.
21 The
Polynesian Discovery of America 231 BC (8 pp) Barry Fell 1-p 94
A cave inscription in Chile which uses Libyan script.
22 An
Ancient Polynesian Star Atlas of 232 B.C. Part 1. A Mariner's Guide to finding
the Celestial North Pole. (6 pp) Barry Fell 1-p 102
West Irian inscriptions; Libyan and Egyptian scripts.
Advertisement: Hawaiian Astronomical Society's Astronews article: The
Egyptian Connection - Who Settled Polynesia? (1 p) Dennis Stone 1-p
105
Discusses West Irian finds.
23 Karl
Stolp's Discovery of La Casa Pintada in 1885 (3 pp) Mina Brand 1-p 108
1885 report on inscriptions in cave in Chile (La Casa
Pintada).
Officers of the Epigraphic Society for 1975. (1 p) 1-p 110
Pres: Barry Fell; Vice-pres.: Norman Totten; Council:
Peter J. Garfall, Joseph D. Germano, Sentiel Rommel; Secy: Rene Fell.
Pohaku ka Luahine. (1 p) Barry Fell 1-p 111
Endangered Libyan inscription on Oahu reported in
press (HI).
Researcher says Hawaiians had written language. (2 pp) Dave De Leon 1-p
111
Facsimile reprint from Star-Bulletin; Honolulu, 10
Dec. 1974.
Foreword (dedication to Harold Sterling Gladwin) (1 p) Barry Fell 2/1-p 2
24
The Birth of a Society (4 pp) Norman
Totten 2/1-p 4
A description of the founding of The Epigraphic Society (originally the
Polynesian Epigraphic Society). Bio info about Totten on p 7.
Officers of the Society (1 p) 2/1-p 7
Barry Fell (Pres.; Editor); Norman Totten (Vice Pres.); Rene Fell (Secy); and
David Moynahan (Asst. Secy); Joseph Germano, Peter Garfall, Sentiel Rommel
(Board Mbrs).
25
In Honor of Harold S. Gladwin (5 pp) George
F. Carter & Barry Fell 2/1-p 8
Two fine scholars pen tributes to a great arch¾ologist and innovative thinker.
News and Correspondence - Members' Activities (14 pp) 2/1-p 12
Letter: Honoring Jean Leclant 2/1-p
12
The friends of Jean Leclant celebrate his election to the Academie with a
testimonial.
Letter: The Epigraphical Society of India Opens Contact (1 p) Ch. Chhabra 2/1-p
13
President Chhabra has arranged for the Epigraphic Society to receive literature
about Indian Society.
Letter: Evidence of Egyptian/Libyan visitors to Bougainville Island. (1 p) Paul
C. Johnson 2/1-p 13
Johnson, of Boroko in Papua New Guinea, reports the evidence exists in the
unique carving styles of certain villages.
Letter: 5th/6th Century AD C14 Dates from Easter Island. (1 p) Grant
McCall 2/1-p 13
North African origin postulated for the inhabitants of Easter Island.
Letter: Cooperation with the Academy of Applied Sciences (1p) Robert Rines 2/1-p
13
Groundwork laid for cooperation on an expedition to the West Irian Caves.
Letter: Election of Patron (1 p) Barry Fell 2/1-p 13
Ruth Hanner (of Kauai in Hawaii), a founding Fellow of the Society elected
a Patron of The Epigraphic Society. Has a forthcoming book on Hawaiian
Epigraphy.
Letter: Egyptian Coins in Australia (1 p) Margaret Carnegie 2/1-p 13
Coin of Ptolemy IV found near Cairns; others mentioned as in Mt. York Museum.
Letter: Maui's Star charts and Navigational Equipment. (1 p) Owen
Gingerich 2/1-p 13
Material is under study by astronomers at Harvard College Observatory.
Letter: Maui's Message Likened to Pioneer 10 plaque. (1 p) Carl Sagan 2/1-p
14
Comment by Sagan, of Cornell University, on the Maui message.
Letter: McCluer Bay Expedition (re Maui) (p 1) Peter J. Garfall 2/1-p
14
Peter Garfall & Christopher Cunningham w/Max Belcher, Julian Fell, Jan-Olaf
Williams, plan to mount an expedition to the cave area of McCluer Bay.
Letter: New publication on Indian Petroglyphs of the Pacific Northwest (1 p) Mrs.
Conger 2/1-p 14
Indian Petroglyphs of the Pacific Northwest
by Beth & Ray Hill.
Letter: Proposed New Museum at Madang, Papua, New Guinea. (1 p) Christine
Holmes 2/1-p 14
Holmes, formerly an ethnologist at a museum in Wellington, New Zealand, writes
from Madang about the museum and offers cooperation with the Society.
New Members (2 pp) 2/1-p 14
List of new members since January 1975.
New Fellows (elected January 1975) (1 p) 2/1-p 15
Dr. George F. Carter for contributions to epigraphy; Dr. Harold Sterling Gladwin
for contributions to archaeology.
Review: Culture-Historical Aspects of the Malayo- Polynesian Settlement in
Ancient South-East Asia (1 p) Barry Fell 2/1-p 15
By R. A. Lochore: Hocken Lecture, 1973; Hocken Library, University of Otago, New
Zealand, 28 pp, 1974. Infers an Anatolian origin for the Polynesian language
& the Polynesians.
Current activities of members (1 p) George F. Carter 2/1-p 16
He is continuing research in his accumulated files for Libyan inscriptions and
directing attention to many US examples hitherto unknown.
Current activities of members (1 p) Phyllis & Frank Donohue 2/1-p
16
Assisting in the preparation of a Libyan vocabulary based on materials reported
in ESOP.
Current activities of members (1 p) Julian Fell 2/1-p 16
Has undertaken a photo survey of New England inscriptions now attributable to
Libyan voyagers of the 1st millenium BC.
Current activities of members (1 p) Barry Fell 2/1-p 16
Continues decipherments of West Irian (Java) astronomical inscriptions; has
begun work on New England & Mexican inscriptions; also Libyan from New
Mexico.
Current activities of members (1 p) Peter Garfall, Joseph Germano, &
David Moynahan 2/1-p 16
Preparing photo records of material previously reported in older literature
& making visual aids for lecture programs.
Current activities of members (1 p) Bruce Henderson 2/1-p 16
Henderson, of New Zealand, undertook a preliminary investigatory trip thru
coastal Taranaki in search of local epigraphic materials; also spread the word
in the local press.
Current activities of members (1 p) Albert Kalsbeek 2/1-p 16
Continues to work on the etymology of Polynesian roots; his wife, an initiate
Tahu'a, is the Society's first associate member from Tahiti.
Current activities of members (1 p) Gerhard Kraus 2/1-p 16
Publisher of the New Diffusionist. He plans to give much attention to the
Society's activities. He is the Society's first member from Africa.
Current activities of members (1 p) Ernst Klein 2/1-p 16
Has assembled an important slide collection of Scandinavian bronze age
petroglyphs & other European materials.
Current activities of members (1 p) Haris Lessaios 2/1-p 16
Sent Fell an interesting reproduction of a Coptic text held at Yale.
Current activities of members (1 p) Sentiel Rommel 2/1-p 16
Trained in navigation & engineering, he is reconstructing Maui's
navigational gear on the basis of Maui's drawings & Fell's decipherments.
Current activities of members (1 p) Dennis Stone 2/1-p 16
He combines astronomical & editorial interests and serves as an effective
link between epigraphers & scientists in Hawaii.
Current activities of members (1 p) Helen J. Stuart 2/1-p 16
Sends historical details re her ancestress, Motoitoi, a chieftainess of the Ngai
Tahu in New Zealand. Her genealogy goes back to the 14th century.
Current activities of members (1 p) Norman Totten 2/1-p 16
Visited Peru, Galapagos, Ecuador and Brazil during January 1975.
New Members (1 p) 2/1-p 17
List of new members since March 1975.
Letter: Tribute in honor of Harold S. Gladwin (1 p) Thomas E. Lee 2/1-p
17
A tribute in honor of Dr. Harold Sterling Gladwin by the editor of The
Anthropological Journal of Canada, writing from the Université Laval, Quebec.
Letter: Agreement with Fell (1 p) Linus Brunner 2/1-p 17
A professor, of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland, he largely agrees with Fell on
Polynesian etymology & its affinities w/Indo-European & Semitic.
Letter: Comparisons between Maori & Semitic letter-forms (2 pp) Adele
Schafer 2/1-p 17
Makes interesting comparisons between Maori letter forms, variants of ancient
Hebrew & related Semitic.
Letter: Harvard Anthro/Archaeology Professor Comments (1 p) Michael E.
Moseley 2/1-p 18
Fell spoke to his class. While doubtful of some of Fell's interpretations, he
thanks Fell for an excellent presentation & wants him back next year.
News Item: Astronomical Publication Embarrassed by Fell (1 p) Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, 8 March 1975 2/1-p 18
Reports that the Bishop Museum & the Hawaiian Astronomical Society were
embarrassed by pro-Fell articles in Astronews. Future Fell articles will
be banned (Dennis Stone is editor of Astronews).
Letter: No Ban in Fiji (1 p) Gavin J. A. Kerr 2/1-p 18
Wrote a book in 1970 titled Fiji in the Pacific for pupils in Fiji
schools to use. Asks permission to use Fell's maps & decipherments re Maui's
expedition to further instruct Fijian students in their history.
Letter:
New Zealand Artist to study Maori-Bedouin chin tattoo similarities (1 p) Mildred
Spalton 2/1-p 19
Auckland artist Kristin Zambucka to go to Egypt to study female chin tattoos
(worn by Maori and Bedouin women).
Letter: Cave inscriptions in the Yasawas Group, about 80 miles NW of Viti Levu
(1 p) George T. McGann 2/1-p 19
Mrs. K. E. D. Chitty, of Mosman, New South Wales, reports that the inscriptions,
once thought to be Chinese, may instead be Libyan.
Letter: Unusual Tapa Pattern from Samoa (1 p) Roma K. Miller 2/1-p 19
A design on an ancient Tapa cloth that has been in her possession since
1938 appears to represent papyrus and lotus according to a UNESCO scholar.. It
has been photographed for National Museum records.
Letter: Academy of Applied Sciences support for Society work (1 p) Robert H.
Rines 2/1-p 20
The President of Academy supports the work of Society member Peter Garfall,
putting him in touch with Charles Wycoff & Harold Edgerton.
Letter: A Maori Chief Agrees with Fell (1 p) Berthold E. S. Fraser-Collins
(Te Taneatua) 2/1-p 20
An honorary Maori chief agrees that probably several
Egypto-Libyan expeditions took place. Chinese reached New Zealand too, but
later.
Letter: A New Zealand Whakapapa (1 p) Helen J. Stuart 2/1-p 21
Her Maori genealogy back to the 14th century.
Letter: A Writer on Maori History Comments on Fell's Work (1 p) Albert E.
Tonson 2/1-p 22
A well-known writer in New Zealand, he wrote Old
Manukau (1966). He suggests that Libyan visitors intermarried with existing
islanders.
Letter: Scholar Wants to Meet Fell (1 p) Martin De Vries 2/1-p 23
The writer, of the Bureau of Educational Research, University of Nairobi, is
very interested in meeting Fell during a planned visit to Boston.
Letter: A Nigerian Writer on Diffusionism Comments on Fell's work (1 p) Gerhard
Kraus 2/1-p 23
He wrote an article for The New Diffusionist (#15, 1974) titled: G.
Elliot Smith & W. J. Perry on Trial . He is preparing an article for
that publication on Fell's work.
Letter: Fell Deals with the "Unclassified Residuum" of Science (1 p) C.
E. Joel 2/1-p 23
Joel, Editor of The New Diffusionist, has worked with British
diffusionists G. Elliot Smith & W. J. Perry for many years so he has a
natural inclination to approach such subject sympathetically.
Fell Responds to Un-named Reader (1 p) Barry Fell 2/1-p 23
Fell explains why he regards Libyan as an "Afro- Asian language."
How Could Ancient Egyptian Ships Cross the Indo-Pacific? (1 p) Barry Fell
2/1-p
24
Fell responds to an anthropologist's challenge by referring to his publication, Life,
Space and Time, 1974, pp 141-142.
New Fellows Elected (1 p) Barry Fell 2/1-p 25
New Fellows of the Society were elected by unanimous
vote of the Council (later called the Board) of the Society: Prof. Dr. Linus
Brunner (Switzerland), Dr. Reuel Lochore (New Zealand), Dr. Ch. Chhabra (India).
The Early Sites Research Society (ESRS) (1 p) Barry Fell 2/1-p 25
The two societies have developed cordial relations
and cooperation on a broad front. ESRS issues a Bulletin. Its Editor is
William B. Nisbet. Founder and Archeological Director of the ESRS is James P.
Whittall II.
Lectures in Massachusetts (1 p) Barry Fell 2/1-p 25
In April 1975, Fell addressed the Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institute on epigraphy and early Iberian & Libyan voyages.
Early in May he spoke again to a meeting of the ESRS.
26 Mailu, an African Language
of New Guinea (20 pp) Barry Fell 2/1-p 26
Mailu,
spoken in southeastern Papua, New Guinea, is identified as a partly creolized
member of the group of African tongues now spoken in the Upper Nile Valley in
the region of Lake Victoria. Fell suggests that Nubian gold-miners (slaves of
the Egyptian Ramesides) came to Sumatra and, when the mines were abandoned c.
1000 BC, established settlements in New Guinea and New Britain.
27 Egyptian Gold-seekers and
Exploration in the Pacific (10 pp) George
F. Carter 2/1-p 46
Abbreviation and translation of H. Quiring's Die
Goldinsel des Isador von Sevilla, Aegypter der 20 Dynastie Als Entdecker und
Kulturbringer in Ostasien. Bibliography on page 55.
Biographic Information on Dr. George Carter (1p) Barry Fell 2/1-p 54
One of the
world's leading geographers, Dr. Carter teaches at Texas A&M University. He
is a Fellow of the American Geographical Society.
28 An Ecliptic Rebus by Maui
(2 pp) Barry Fell 2/1-p 56
The rebus was found adjacent to a depiction of
a torquetum (an early navigational instrument invented by Eratosthenes)
in a cave in Sosorra, West Irian, by the Frobenius Expendition of 1937-1938. It
was published by Josef Röder as R3179 in 1959. Sentiel Rommel cooperated with
Fell (whose translation of the rebus is given) and reconstructed the torquetum.
29 Maui's Tanawa — a
Torquetum of 232 B.C. (7 pp) Sentiel
Rommel 2/1-p 58
He illustrates the torquetum
discussed in the previous paper and describes its use.
Biographic Information on Dr. Sentiel Rommel (1 p) Barry Fell 2/1-p 64
He has a degree in science from the United States
Naval Academy as well as a Masters in Engineering and a PhD from the University
of Maine. He is a Fellow and a Founder of the Epigraphic Society.
30 An Ancient Polynesian Star
Atlas of 232 B.C. Part 2 (4 pp) Barry Fell
2/1-p 65
Maui crossed equator in the
late Summer of 232 BC. He left a map in a sea-cave in Egyptian hieroglyphics and
Maori (Libyan) script.
31 Moses: Meaning in a Name (7
pp) Norman Totten 2/1-p 69
Derivation and versions of the Hebrew/Egyptian
name, Mose(s).
32 Phonetic Mutation in
Polynesian Languages (15 pp) Barry Fell 2/1-p
76
Reprint of a 1973 paper by Fell in which he claims to have
solved the ancient Polynesian alphabet. He holds that modern Polynesian is
derived from Libyan.
33 Egyptian Sprang
Technique in an Arizona Textile (3 pp) Bucky King 2/1-p 91
The author notes examples
of sprang technique similar to Egyptian in Peru, New Mexico and Arizona.
***
The printing of this first edition has been made possible through the generosity of Ruth K. Hanner
34 Libyan Visitors to
Scandinavia in the Early Bronze Age (3 pp) Barry
Fell 2/2-p 1
A Swedish bronze age rock engraving carries an inscription in the Libyan (Mauri)
language.
35 Place Names as One Key to
Prehistoric Vocabularies (2 pp) Norman
Totten 2/2-p 4
The reconstruction of extinct languages through the etymological analysis of
place names.
36 Indo-European Roots in Two
Ancient Maori Inscriptions (1 p) Linus
Brunner 2/2-p 6
Discusses the derivation of certain words found in an inscription from Java
deciphered by Fell.
37 Egyptian
Influence in Hawaiian Petroglyphs (9 pp) Ruth
K. Hanner 2/2-p 7
She gives examples from Luahiwa, Lanai, Hawaii. She believes them to be Egyptian
or produced under Egyptian inspiration. Biographic information is given on the
author, a Founding Fellow of The Epigraphic Society.
38 An Ancient Maori Text in
Libyan Script from Otaki, New Zealand (9 pp)
Barry Fell 2/2-p 16
It is a Marama-taka (Fishing Calendar). Maori content of 30 lines of
ancient Libyan script.
39 Protosanskrit, A Bronze-age
Language of Mohenjo Daro (32 pp) Barry
Fell 2/2-p 25
Fell tackles the Indus Valley script as depicted on seals (Fell first attacked
this problem in 1973).
40 Some Remarks on
Protosanskrit (2 pp) Linus Brunner 2/2-p 57
Notes sent to Fell enlarging on the etymology of words on the Indus Valley
seals.
41 Cultural Comparisons and
Diffusions (7 pp) Norman Totten 2/2-p 59
Definitions and use of terms: ethnographic analogy, cultural diffusion,
independent invention, etc.
42 East African Vocabulary in
New Guinea and Polynesia (3 pp) Barry Fell
2/2-p 66
Comparative tables of Extra-Nilotic (Swahili) and Papuan (Mailu) vocabularies.
A Neolithic Universal? (1 p) Barry Fell 2/2-p 68
Comparison of New Zealand Kuri with the Hausa kairre, kura; Lapp kuria;
English cur; ON kurra; Celtic cu.
43 Iberian Inscriptions in
Paraguay ca 4th c. B.C. (10 pp) Barry Fell
& Erik P. Reinert 2/2-p 69
Inscriptions found on th walls of a cave at Cerro Guazu, Amambay, in northeast
Paraguay. Fell says they are in the Ogham script, Punic Language.
44(l) The
Inscribed Stone from Comassakumkanit
(3 pp) James P. Whittall II 2/2-p 79
An inscription found on Cape Cod south of Great Herring Pond, Bourndale,
Massachusetts, known since about 1658.
44(2) An Iberian-Punic Stele of Hanno (3 pp) Barry Fell 2/2-p 82
Fell deciphers the Comassakumkanit inscription left by Hanno, a Carthaginian
explorer.
45 Epigraphy of the
Susquehanna Steles (8 pp) Barry Fell 2/2-p
85
Decipherment of the Mechanicsburg (Susquehanna), PA,
Stones. According to Fell they are in the Basque language and in the Iberic
script.
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Paper No.
46 A Fifth-century
Moroccan Emigration to North America. (10 pp) Barry
Fell 3/1-p 4
A long rupestral inscription from El Hadj
Mimoun, near Figuig, in Morocco, discovered by Flamand in 1921.
47
Implications of the Figuig Decipherment, (10 pp) Norman
Totten 3/1-p 14
Dates insc. to 535 AD referring to a voyage to
North America about 480 AD.
48
An Arabic Dialect In Ancient Moroccan Inscriptions. (12 pp) Barry
Fell 3/1-p 24
Inquiry into other so-called Libyo-Berber
inscriptions in Morocco.
Includes a graphic of Ancient Maghrib characters.
49
The First European Colonists in New England. (5 pp)
Norman Totten 3/1-p 36
Speech to jt. mtg. Epig. Soc., NEARA, &
ESRS, Univ. Museum, Harvard Univ., 30 Aug. 1975. Includes
biographic information on Harold S. Gladwin, Robert Stone, Barry Fell, Gloria
Farley, John A. Williams, and James Whittall.
50
Celtic Iberian Inscriptions of New England. (5 pp)
Barry Fell 3/1-p 41
Early Ogam script
(vowel-less; called Consaine Ogam) found in Portugal, Canaries, & North
America.
51
An Early Calendar Site in Central Vermont. (3 pp)
Byron E. Dix 3/1-p 46
Possible astronomical alignments are
delineated.
52
PreColumbian Parallels between Mediterranean and New England Archeology.
(5 pp) James P. Whittall II 3/1-p 49
Abstract of a preliminary report submitted to
ESRS, NEARA and the Epigraphic Society.
53
Inscribed Sarsen Stones in Vermont. (2 pp)
Barry Fell &
John Williams 3/1-p 54
Large prostrate sarsen stones in Vermont near
South Woodstock have Ogham inscriptions.
54
Ancient Arabic Script and Vocabulary of the Algonquian Indians. (3 pp) Barry
Fell 3/1-p 56
(graphic of scripts shown).
55
A Celtiberian (Gadelic) Law-Tablet
from Ourique, Portugal. (3 pp) Barry Fell 3/1-p
59
Fragmented and incomplete, it is in the collection of Santiago de
CacŽm, Portugal; from Ourique.
Graphics of Ogam, Iberic, and Ourique characters shown.
56
A Dialect of Ancient Greek from South-eastern
Spain. (6 pp) Barry Fell 3/1-p 62
Several docs. in Iberic of late date seem to
reflect a peculiar dialect of Greek.
57
Ancient Iberian Compass Dials from Liria, Spain; and A
Related
Object from Tennessee. (6
pp) Barry Fell
3/1-p 68
Reports on two of four identified magnetic
compass dials made of ceramic, and lettered with cardinal points and operating
instructions in the Iberic language. All four are from the general area of
Valencia, but the other two are not from Liria.
58
A Celtiberian Funeral Stele in Navarra, Spain, Inscribed
in 0gam. (2 pp) Barry Fell 3/1-p
74
Piedra de Roldan, Erroldan-Arriya, Navarra,
translated by Fell.
59
Atnakuna Motifs on Egyptian Figurines. (3 pp)
David Oedel 3/1-p 76
Symbols noted on the backs of Ushabtis
buried with mummies bear resemblance to N. American symbols.
60
A Possible Plinth Monument in Central Vermont. (6 pp)
Byron E. Dix 3/1-p
79
A plinth, used to determine the midday altitude of the sun, has possibly been found in Vermont.
61
A Second Early Calendar Site in Central Vermont. (18 pp) Byron E. Dix 3/1-p
85
Alignments and calendrical aspects of the site
are discussed.
Paper No.
62
Unde Origo? — The Crisis in Linguistics Today; Bibliography. (13
pp) Marge E. Landsberg 3/2-p 3
The Amerind portion of her Materials for a
Bibliography of Trans-Linguistic Studies.
63
The Roots of Libyan. (6 pp) Barry
Fell 3/2-p 16
List of roots possibly part of vocabulary of
Libyan Mariners.
64
Structure of The Zuni Language. (10 pp)
Barry Fell 3/2-p 22
Zunis apparently speak a creolinized dialect
of Libyan.
65
An Ancient Judean Inscription from Tennessee. (5 pp)
Robert E. Stieglitz 3/2-p
32
Decipherment of the Bat Creek Inscription.
66
A Theory Concerning The Indus Seals. (10 pp)
Donal B. Buchanan 3/2-p
37
Suggests that the seals were associated with
trade and the animal figures were totemic.
67
The Romano-Celtic Phase at Mystery Hill, New
Hampshire in New England. (3 pp) Barry
Fell 3/2-p 47
Decipherment of the Beltane Stone found at
North Salem, New Hampshire.
68
The Gowen Bluff Shelter. (2 pp)
Gloria Farley
3/2-p 50
Recording petroglyphs at a site near Gowen,
Oklahoma.
69
Inscriptions from Mid-America.
(10 pp) Gloria Farley 3/2-p 52
Records the Cass (Arkansas), Cimarron (Oklahoma), Warner
(Oklahoma), Turkey Mtn. (Oklahoma), & Hillsboro (Missouri) petroglyphs.
Gloria Farley was elected Fellow of the Society in 1976.
70
L'Étymologie et les Migrations Polynésienness — Où était situé
Havaiki? (3 pp) Linus Brunner 3/2-p 62
A theory concerning the origins of the
Polynesians as revealed by etymology.
71
Remains of Indo-Aryan Culture on the Hawaiian Islands. (7 pp)
B. Ch. Chhabra 3/2-p 65
Demonstrates contact between Asia, South Asia, and
Polynesia. Biographic information on Chhabra is given.
72
Possible Libyan Petromanteia in Quebec. (5 pp)
Barry Fell 3/2-p 72
The Sherbrooke Inscription as an example of rock- divining.
73
The Most Sacred Season. (3 pp)
Techqua Ikachi 3/2-p 77
The time of Ka-mu-ya (December),
preparation for new life, the sowing of the seeds of the coming year.
74
The Pima Myth of Persephone. (7 pp)
Barry Fell 3/2-p 80
Pima chants (recorded by Frank Russell) show Arabic
(Semitic) vocabulary.
75
Two Ancient Iberian Hospitality Pledges and Their
Texts. (3 pp) Barry Fell & Gertrude
Johnson 3/2-p 87
Examples of Iberian
tesserae hospitalis in Latin and Iberic (both from Southeastern Spain).
76 The Etymology of Some
Ancient American Inscriptions (6pp) Barry Fell
3/2-p 90
Cuenca Elephant Stele, Rio Grande Inscription, Cimarron
Cliff, Catfish Painting, Grave Creek & Braxton tablets.
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Paper No.
77
The Minoan Language — Linear A decipherment
(67 pp) Barry Fell 4/1-p
12 [In this section, the first
number given below is the page number
in the paper; the second is the page number
in the volume.]
Fell holds that the Linear
A Script reflects a language close to Hittite.
Introduction p. 1 (12)
Linear A Matrix p. 2 (13)
Isomorphic Equations p. 4 Equations
p. 4 (15)
Inferred Paleographic Distribution of Signs p. 8 (19)
Accidence — Nouns p. 9 (20)
Verbs p. 10 (21)
Vocabulary of Minoan Words in Linear A
11 -- 40 (22 --51)
Material Studied p. 40 (51)
Minoan Society p. 40 (51)
The Urban Centers p, 40 (51)
Government and Administration p.
41 p. 41 (52)
The Agricultural Economy p. 42 (53)
The Wine Harvest p. 43 (54)
The Wheat Harvest p. 43 (54)
The Olive Harvest p. 44 (54)
Household Economy p. 51 (60)
Inscriptions on Drinking Cups p. 53 Drinking
Cups p. (62)
Harvest Festival 1250 B.C. p. 54 (63)
The Omens p. 54 (63)
The Palace Inventories p. 54 (63)
Graffiti and Signatures p. 54 (63)
References p. 54. (63)
Various tablets & Decipherments pp 55-65 (64 --77)
Appendix: Layout of a Bronze Age
Orchard p 66 (78)
Nine Steps in the Decipherment of an Unknown Language in an Unknown Script Barry
Fell p 67 (79)
It is possible that these steps, in the proper hands,
could be incorporated in a computer program.
78
Fell: A Letter from Hiram III, ca 540 B.C. (12 pp) Barry
Fell 4/1-p 80
Reprint of a
December
1973 paper. Fell
holds that Minoan, Paphian, and Etruscan
are inter-related languages of the Anatolian group.
79
Fell: The Phaistos Disk ca 1600 B.C. (17 pp) Barry
Fell 4/1-p 92
Reprint of a paper
published in December 1973 about the decipherment of a bifacial ceramic tablet,
the Phaistos Disk, in the Herakleion Museum.
80
Fell: A Dialect of Minoan from
Cyprus (5 pp) Barry Fell 4/1-p
109
Reprint of a December
1973 paper identifying a Minoan dialect in Cyprus reflected in Cypriot
inscriptions.
81
A Text to Change
the History of the World
(3 pp) Reuel A. Lochore 4/1-p 115
This article on the work of Barry Fell originally
appeared in the New Zealand Listener. Biographic information is given on
Dr. Reuel Lochore, linguist & former New Zealand ambassador to Bonn. He was
educated in various New Zealand and German Universities and holds a PhD in
language & logic. He specializes in Anatolian languages.
82
Phaistos Disk: The Oldest
Printed Text. (5
pp) Norman Totten 4/1-p 118
Reports on the Phaistos Disk (found in Crete; now in
Herakleion Museum).
On
the Cover
Harvest Festival, 1450 BC (See
p. 54, no 77).
Paper No.
83
Greek Place Names in South America (6 pp)
Henriette Mertz 4/2-p 5
Villages in South America bear Greek names: witness
to a history now lost.
84
Co a biad na Cruithnich? (5 pp)
Aonghas mac Eanruig 4/2-p 11
He suggests that the Pictish language is non-Celtic.
A graphic of the Aboyne Stele is shown, with a partial translation. [Note:
Buchanan has translated the inscription on the Aboyne Stele. It is in a
basically Celtic language heavily larded with Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse
loan-words. This and other Scottish Ogham inscriptions will be the subject of a
future paper.]
85
Epigraphy on Medieval Coins (9 pp)
Norman Totten 4/2-p 16
Characteristics of writing which developed along
non-classical lines as shown from coins.
86
The Eye of God and the Agricultural Grid (11 pp)
Norman Totten 4/2-p 25
Concentrates on the two motifs found in New England
and Iberia.
87 A Phallic Inscription in Western Mexico (2 pp) Donal Buchanan