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Epigraphic
Society Occasional Publications
Table
of Contents, Vol. 5/1, 1978
Paper No.
99
Restored Greek Content of OPES 56 as deciphered by Fell. (3 pp)
Linus Brunner 5/1-p 1
The
author, a Fellow of the Society and an Emeritus Professor of Greek and Latin,
supports Fell's decipherment of the Pujol inscription (Castellon de la Plana) as
Greek. [Buchanan note: But the text was faulty!
Fell made 9 errors in transcription in the first line alone!]
Letter:Possible
Georgian-Basque Affinities: a Georgian tablet from Spain. (3 pp)
Julian G. Fernandez 5/1-p 4
Forwards an article in Georgian re Basque-Georgian
similarities from publication "Motherland."
100 Etruscan
(continued from OPES vol 4, no 88) (48
pp) Barry Fell 5/1-p 7
Decipherment of a number of important Etruscan
inscriptions.
Results of the decipherment Administration Literature Origin of the
Petrarchian Sonnet Religion of the Etruscans Etruscan Legal Documents
The Resurrection Hymn Funerary Phalluses and Their Texts Other
Funerary Inscriptions The Toscanella Dice Linguistic Relationships
Loan Vocabulary Method of Decipherment Tests for the Veracity of the
Decipherment Ventris' Rules Pasteur's Test Declension of the
Personal Pronouns Demonstratives The Etruscan Verb The Etruscan Noun
The Etruscan Adjective Declension of Nouns Vocabulary.
101
Correspondence: (35 pp) 5/1-p 55
Origin of the
Polynesian Vocabulary (4 pp) Reuel Lochore
5/1-p 55
States that Brunner's work supports that of Lochore
and Fell re the homeland of Polynesians.
America B.C.
(3 pp) Harold S. Gladwin 5/1-p 59
Calls it an important work.
Expedicion
Breogan (7 pp) Fernando Alonso Romero
5/1-p 61
Curing Skins
for a Celtic Vessel (2 pp) Santiago
Domingues 5/1-p 68
Information on a nautical experiment: crossing from
Galicia to Ireland in a leather & wicker craft.
Sanskrit
Roots in Western North America (1 p) Donald B. Lawrence & Makarand Jawadakar 5/1-p 73
Presented at the World Sanskrit Conference in Paris,
in June 1977: Sanskrit roots exist in Indian languages in Alaska, British
Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and California.
The Willard
Stone (1 p) Gloria Farley 5/1-p 74
Description (with a graphic) of a stone bearing a
short inscription found near Willard, Missouri.
Entdeckungen
Amerikas v Chr. (2 pp) Linus Brunner 5/1-p
75
A review, in German, of America BC.
Ardmore
Inscription (2 pp) Gloria Farley 5/1-p 75
Report on an inscribed boulder found in Ardmore,
Oklahoma.
Tennessee
Disk (2 pp) Gloria Farley 5/1-p 77
Report on a small inscribed disk found along the
Tennessee River below Hiwasee Island (see ESOP 3.1, #57).
The Tennessee
Disk (6 pp) James E. Kelley 5/1-p 79
Report on the disk from Tennessee (with a graphic).
He suggests it is an amulet.
Five-foot
Ogam from Cimarron (2 pp) Gloria Farley
5/1-p 85
Report on a long Ogam inscription in the Oklahoma panhandle, Cimarron site (a large eroded cave).
Analysis of Markings on the Tennessee Disk (4 pp) Rollin W. Gillespie 5/1-p 86
Suggests that the disk may be a device to predict
eclipses.
102
Pre-Columbian Inscriptions (8
pp) Gloria Farley 5/1-p 90
Discusses the Pontotoc Stone, the Cimarron Site,
& other Okla- homa inscriptions as well as the Tennessee disk and an
Arkansas coin.
103 Anubis
and Placental "Dogs" (4
pp) Clyde Keeler 5/1-p 98
Discussion
and comparison of Egyptian, Mesopotamian,
Greek & Amerindian mythology re
the Underworld.
104 Denomination of Cardinal Points (4 pp) Linus Brunner
5/1-p 102
Different ways of
naming the cardinal points in human speech.
105 Computerization of Consonantal
Frequency. (3 pp) Sentiel Rommel
5/1-p 106
Describes a
computer program which will plot a frequency spectrograph of the consonants in a
language.
106 Alphabets
of the Berbers (4 pp) Daniel G. Brinton
5/1-p 109
Describes
the alphabets in use by modern Berbers.
The Rumney New Hampshire Inscribed
Blue Stone Bead. (1 p) Lynn Chong
5/1-p
112
The
writer suggests that the bead might have been a surveyor's tool for the laying
out of ancient worship sites.
On
the Cover
The
new decipherments of Etruscan disclose that much of our modern law descends from
Etruria. The illustration shows a portion of the text (reading right to left) of
the Laws on burglary, engraved on a stone stele at Volterra, Italy. On the same
stone, reference is made to a Jury of Twelve. See article 100 in this issue.
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