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Re:Hand of Irulegi: ancient artefact could help trace origin... by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @11:21AM (#33625664)
Huh, at first glance I thought they were runes, but then runes must've had predecessors themselves.
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Re:Hand of Irulegi: ancient artefact could help trace origin... by dendrite9 on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @01:00PM (#33627564)
I spent some time looking into this from a post about this artifact yesterday. I had the same response to think abut runes when I looked at it as well. For anyone curious, the characters are evidently from one of several Paleohispanic scripts. The origins of those scripts might be Phoenician and/or Greek, some are read from left to right and some from right to left.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleohispanic_scripts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleohispanic_languages

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