Epigraphic
Society Occasional Publications
Table
of Contents, Vol. 10/1, 1982
Rhaetic
Inscriptions (4 pp) Linus Brunner
10/1-p 9
He
believes Rhaetic
is related to Semitic. Here he uses Semitic to translate Rhaetic inscriptions.
New
Epigraphic Finds in Oklahoma and Colorado, Utah and Wyoming (4 pp) Gloria Farley 10/1-p
13
Reports
on Ogam in western
America and also the Wyoming Tablet (Fell deciphered the latter as Cypriot script and language).
The
Bohuslän Culture (Bronze Age Norse) in North America
(13 pp) Barry Fell 10/1-p
17
Characteristic petroglyphs shared by Scandinavia and North America.
Roman
Amphoras Discovered Near Rio de Janeiro (2 pp)
Walter Sullivan
10/1-p 30
Sullivan,
of the New York Times, writes of a discovery by diver Jose Roberto Texeira as reported by
Robert F.
& Jennifer
Marx.
Stone
Discs from North of England (5 pp) Lionel
H. Atkinson 10/1-p 32
Examination of several hundred discs suggesting possible uses.
Addendum:
Stone
Discs at North American Archaeological Sites (1 p) Barry
Fell 10/1-p 36
Some have ogam markings; one is shown and deciphered.
The
Magic Flute – Birdstones Reconsidered (8 pp) Norman
Totten 10/1-p 37
He
suggests a ritualistic symbolic use of the birdstones.
Rhaetic
Inscriptions in the Tyrol (3 pp) Linus
Brunner 10/1-p
45
He
suggests
that the Rhaetic peoples borrowed Indo-European words.
Ogam
– A Precursor of Written Language? (4 pp) David
Barron p 48
A specialist in speech pathology and language development examines the problem of a Megalithic written language.
The
Elephant Mounds of Wisconsin (5 pp) David
M. Radloff 10/1-p
52
Notes a reference to a camel mound in Wisconsin as well as elephants and mastodons.
Map
of North America Petroglyph (1 p) Ruth
Tipton & Bill McGlone
10/1-p 56
Authors suggest withdrawal of support for the petroglyph as a map; Fell concurs.
The
Los Lunas Inscription (11 pp) L. Lyle
Underwood 10/1-p 57
A
history and description of
the inscription with graphics from a photo by the author. Gives a script
comparison and suggested translation.
The
Los Lunas Stone (6 pp) Donald Cline 10/1-p 68
Another
look at the site's description and history. A transliteration of inscription is
given.
A
Decipherment of the Los Lunas Decalogue Inscription (8 pp) Jay
Stonebraker 10/1-p
74
Transcription, transliteration and translation
of the inscription
by the author.
World
Maps of Piris Reis (1513 AD), Oronteus Finaeus (1531 AD), and Gerardus Mercator
(1538 AD) (4 pp) Gordon R. Freeman 10/1-p 82
Attempts to resolve problems in their interpretation.
Ptolemaic
Finds in Australia (1
p) Rex Gilroy 10/1-p
85
Australasian Post, 24 Dec 1981 and 28 Jan
1982 reports on Gilroy's finding of the heads of Mithras and Demeter as well as
a ship glyph and a Ptolemaic coin.
Notes
to Brunner's *SER-1 (5 pp) Marge E.
Landsberg
10/1-p 86
Discusses the Indo-European root *ser-1 and cognates in Semitic, Malayo-Polynesian and Austronesian.
The
Lost Manila Galleons (3 pp) Orville L.
Hope 10/1-p 91
One Manila treasure galleon
was wrecked off San Miguel Island,
California, and another off Nahalem Spit, Oregon.
Petromantic
Ogam of Conestoga, Pennsylvania (3 pp) Patrick
M. McSherry 10/1-p
94
Natural "pseudo-ogam" deciphered by Fell: "to the libation bowl" or "make a libation bowl."
An
Inscribed Boulder in the University of British Columbia Research Forest, Haney,
British Columbia (2 pp) Bruce A. Macdonald
10/1-p
97
Fell suggests
that the script is North Iberic and reads it using Semitic.
A
Norse Runic Inscription from Dundee Creek, Maryland
(4 pp) Barry Fell 10/1-p
99
Fell reads the inscription as naming a "fishing place"
-- appropriate for its locale.
A
Norse Runic Inscription from Chesapeake Bay Area (4 pp) Brad
O’Keefe 10/1-p 103
This inscription is
read as: "Ferry."
Short
Reports and Letters to the Editor (9 pp) 10/1-p 107
Charles Darwin and the Patagonian Stones
(1 p) Marvin S. Wasser 10/1-p 107
Darwin noted heaps of stones on
a mountain top in Uruguay similar to those seen in Wales.
Stephens
County, Texas –An Ogam Cave Inscription (2 pp) Mike
Kingston
10/1-p 107
Info from Mike Kingston of
the Dallas Morning
News. A graphic of the inscription
is shown and Fell's decipherment given.
Saga
America: The Map of North America (2 pp) L.
J. Dewald 10/1-p 109
Investigation
of the site determines that the "map"
shown on the cover of Saga America is not a map at all; Fell agrees.
An
Ogam Consaine Inscribed Artifact from Windmill Hill, Wiltshire, England (2 pp) Charles
Dailey & Barry Fell
10/1-p 110
Dailey
brings the artifact to Fell's attention. Fell deciphers it using Celtic: B-YA-N M-T D-N D-M = Byanu mat, dion diom = "Good
mother -goddess, a protection for me."
Choctaw
and Cherokee Medical Touchstones (5 pp) John
Moore & Barry
Fell 10/1-p 111
Moore
provided what appear to be two Amerindian touchstones bearing inscriptions. There
is a long inscription on one and a shorter inscription on
the other. Graphics of both are shown. Fell offers his translations of the
inscriptions.
Rock Shelter Inscription, Jackson County, Kentucky,
Engraved in Basque-Cree Syllabic Script, Shawnee Language (1 p) Larry Dean
10/1-p 114
Inscription
shown and translated by Fell.
An Ogam-Inscribed Birdstone
(1 p) Barry Fell 10/1-p 115
Found in Clarence H. Webb's account of artifacts excavated from Poverty Point, Louisiana; Fell translation given.
An
Ogam-inscribed Pictograph in Carrizo Canyon, San Diego County (1 p) Barry Fell 10/1-p 116
The inscription shown
(a poor photo) and Fell's decipherment given.
Two Inscribed Stones Found Near Shamokin, Pennsylvania, by Salathiel
Derk (1 p) Barry Fell
10/1-p 117
Photographed by Larry
Mulligan (no photo shown, but graphics are available). Fell offers
a decipherment.
On
the Cover
A
graphic of the Seal of the Society is shown. The title of the volume is given: America's
Links with Bronze Age Europe.
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