Fortean (Anomalous; Undecipherable) Writing, Script, etc.

[EnolaGaia]

The symbols / script / inscriptions on the Phaistos Disk continue to defy definitive deciphering ...

The Phaistos Disk
https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/the-phaistos-disk.6509/page-2

 

[blessmycottonsocks]

The Newton Stone was discovered in 1804 when George Hamilton-Gordon, the Earl of Aberdeen, was laying a road at Pitmachie Farm in Aberdeenshire. He had the stone relocated to the grounds of Newton House, near Inverurie, where its enigmatic inscriptions and carvings have sparked debate ever since.
Although the stone itself may have been shaped and originally erected at a far earlier time, the inscriptions appear to be of post-Roman Pictish design, accompanied by Brittonic Ogham and some other script that has not yet been positively identified.
The 45 cursive characters vaguely resemble semi-uncial script, but with many unique symbols, including a swastika.
It has been suggested that the script may be a form of Phoenician, ancient Gaelic, archaic Latin, Greek or Gnostic symbolism.

The presence of the Ogham, which is decipherable, albeit with disputed meaning, raises the possibility that the Newton Stone may have a similar function to the famous Rosetta Stone, which bore the same text in different scripts.
The mystery remains however as to exactly what this script is:

https://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/newton-stone-0010576

 

[maximus otter]

2,500-year-old slate containing drawings of battle scenes and paleo-alphabet discovered in Spain​

Archaeologists in Spain have discovered a unique tablet containing ancient drawings that depict Tartessian battle scenes and an alphabet.

The artworks were found during ongoing excavations at Casas del Turuñuelo, an ancient Tartessian site in southwestern Spain, according to a translated statement.

The Tartessos people were an ancient civilization that first settled in the Iberian peninsula around the eighth century B.C. and were known for their elaborate writing system. By the fourth century B.C., they mysteriously vanished.

On the slate's permitter, someone had carved an alphabetical "sequence of 21 signs" in Paleo-Hispanic script, according to a different translated statement. Unfortunately, a piece of the slate was broken off, so researchers can only speculate as to which letters are missing from the series.

One side of the tablet contained letters from an alphabet. (Image credit: JFiJ/CSIC)

"At least [six] signs would have been lost in the split area of the piece, but if it were completely symmetrical and the signs completely occupied three of the four sides of the plate, it could reach 32 signs," Joan Ferrer i Jané, a researcher in paleohispanic philology (the study of language structure and development) at the University of Barcelona, said in the statement. "It is a shame that the final part of the alphabet has been lost since … that is where the most pronounced differences tend to be."

The plaque, which measures nearly 8 inches (20 centimeters) long, also contains engravings depicting three warriors in battle.

https://www.livescience.com/archaeo...scenes-and-paleo-alphabet-discovered-in-spain

maximus otter

 

[Fabio Picasso]

Alleged Alien Epigraphy, Mendoza, Argentina, 1968
Overview:

September 1, 1968. Around about 4.00 a.m. that morning, the soldiers on duty in the guardroom at the General Espejo Military College were surprised by the sudden appearance of two young men, casino workers, obviously in a state of shock, and babbling that their car had suddenly stopped, and that when they got out to investigate the cause they had seen a nying saucer close to the ground and fhe small being who communicated with them in a strange manner and took blood samples from their fingers.​

Bowe, Charles . One Day in Mendoza, Flying Saucers Review, Vol.XIV, Nº6, November+December 1968, pp.2-5

 

[Fabio Picasso]

Mysterious Inscription on a Rock near the Urubu River, Amazonia, Brazil

Source: Azevedo da Silva Ramos, Bernardo de - Inscripçoes e Tradiçoes da America Prehistorica Especialmente do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Vol.I, 1930, p.11​

 

[Fabio Picasso]

Unidentified inscription in the Amazon Rainforest, banks of the Puraquequara River. ​

The author maintains that it is Greek

Source: Azevedo da Silva Ramos, Bernardo de - Inscripçoes e Tradiçoes da America Prehistorica Especialmente do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Vol.I, 1930, p.21

 

[Fabio Picasso]

Unidentified Inscriptions at "Casa Pintada", Grotto Located in Tinguiririca Volcano, Chile

Source: Karl Stolp . Indianische Zeichen aus der Cordillere Chile's. Verbandlungen des deutschen wissenschaftlichen Vereines zu Santiago, Vol.II, Nº1, Valparaiso, 1889, pp.35-37​

 

[Fabio Picasso]

The Space Stone, 1954, Spain
Overview:

The readers of the Madrid capital were surprised, that morning of February 8, 1955, when they read in the newspaper “El Alcázar” the following headline “Mars places its first stone in Madrid.” According to what was read in the pages of the newspaper, in the early morning of November 17, 1954, Alberto Sanmartín, a 37-year-old nurse, woke up around 3:00 a.m. suffering from a severe toothache. After taking an aspirin, he decided to take a walk from Cuatro Caminos to Ciudad Universitaria (Madrid), as he frequently did when cavities bothered him. He was about to cross a bridge, after passing by the Casa Velázquez, very close to the well-known French Bridge, which leads to the old exit to the highway to La Coruña, when he came across a curious individual with an angelic appearance “who radiated kindness.” ”. with the look.” “He looked like a well-rounded pilot in a tight, grayish suit. It was a jumpsuit like an aviator's, one piece and without openings (...) and the hands were extremely elongated and whitish," the nurse described to the press. After a brief exchange of signs, the astonished witness interpreted that his “silent companion” came from another planet. The “alien” without saying a word, fell down a path and was lost in the shadows. A few minutes later they turned to hand Sanmartín an enigmatic rectangular stone. He had not yet come out of his astonishment, when the supposed “alien” said goodbye with a gesture and headed back down the road towards the ravine. At those moments, after hearing a whistle, the nurse watches in astonishment as, from the shadows, a dark discoid object rises and disappears into the heights. Returning to the pension where he was staying, Alberto Sanmartín carefully examined the strange “gift” he had received that morning. Under the dim light of his room he verified that it was a rectangular stone, of a violet hue, very light, 12 cm long by 4 cm wide and had nine enigmatic inscriptions engraved on its surface.

Source: Alberto Sanmartin. El Embajador de las Estrellas, Buenos Aires, 1977​

 

[Spudrick68]

You are Charles Fort and I claim my five pounds.

Most excellent research.

 

[Fabio Picasso]

Another Strange Inscription near Urubu River, Amazonia

Source: Azevedo da Silva Ramos, Bernardo de - Inscripçoes e Tradiçoes da America Prehistorica Especialmente do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Vol.I, 1930, p.105

 

[Fabio Picasso]

Clay disc. Museo Nacional Antropológico "Eduardo López Rivas". Oruro, Bolivia​

It is possible that the clay discs from Oruro, full of pebbles of different shapes and colors, pieces of ceramic with geometric marks (circles, straight lines, crosses, etc.) and found in the museums of Oruro and Cochabamba are surviving elements of prayers associated with peasant altarpieces and made to be used during their festivities. It is also possible that, in many areas, each cajon (The clay discs were found in drawers, like shelves in a library) - whether monothematic or multithematic - has carried within itself its own prayer, as Ibarra points out. Grasso. If such a hypothesis is true, then it is possible that such a "writing" system may have been outside the control of the Church and even the local "doctrinal master", since it could have had its own inscription and family ordering. In other words, unlike the clay discs (and also those prayers made of leather and paper) preserved to this day and that reproduce what was indicated and taught from the doctrine of the Third Council of Limense (1584), generally communal application, these local "disks", associated with regional deities placed in the drawers, could have had their own ritual-religious formulas, created and known only by the owners of the drawers, who had the freedom to create their own special signs. Furthermore, since they worked in concrete and specific moments and situations, they could be easily remembered and "read" by members of a family.
Sources:
F Garcés & Walter Sánchez . Andean records and writing: A complex, dense system of visual, oral and spatial elements, Bol. Mus. Chil. Arte Precolomb. vol.21 no.1 Santiago, 2016
Ibarra Graso , Dick, 1953. La escritura indígena andina. La Paz: Alcaldía Municipal de La Paz.​

 

[Fabio Picasso]

Inscriptions from Puyri, Moura, Amazonia

Azevedo da Silva Ramos, Bernardo de - Inscripçoes e Tradiçoes da America Prehistorica Especialmente do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Vol.I, 1930, p.423

 

[Fabio Picasso]

2,500-year-old slate containing drawings of battle scenes and paleo-alphabet discovered in Spain​

Archaeologists in Spain have discovered a unique tablet containing ancient drawings that depict Tartessian battle scenes and an alphabet.

The artworks were found during ongoing excavations at Casas del Turuñuelo, an ancient Tartessian site in southwestern Spain, according to a translated statement.

The Tartessos people were an ancient civilization that first settled in the Iberian peninsula around the eighth century B.C. and were known for their elaborate writing system. By the fourth century B.C., they mysteriously vanished.

On the slate's permitter, someone had carved an alphabetical "sequence of 21 signs" in Paleo-Hispanic script, according to a different translated statement. Unfortunately, a piece of the slate was broken off, so researchers can only speculate as to which letters are missing from the series.

One side of the tablet contained letters from an alphabet. (Image credit: JFiJ/CSIC)

"At least [six] signs would have been lost in the split area of the piece, but if it were completely symmetrical and the signs completely occupied three of the four sides of the plate, it could reach 32 signs," Joan Ferrer i Jané, a researcher in paleohispanic philology (the study of language structure and development) at the University of Barcelona, said in the statement. "It is a shame that the final part of the alphabet has been lost since … that is where the most pronounced differences tend to be."

The plaque, which measures nearly 8 inches (20 centimeters) long, also contains engravings depicting three warriors in battle.

https://www.livescience.com/archaeo...scenes-and-paleo-alphabet-discovered-in-spain

maximus otter

The so-called Tartessian writings have been found in the South of Portugal and decipherments have been proposed based on the Celtic writing used by the Celtiberians who lived in the Iberian Peninsula between the 14th and 4th centuries BP.

Mesas de Castelinho (Almodôvar, Portugal) found in 2008

 

[Fabio Picasso]

The Newton Stone was discovered in 1804 when George Hamilton-Gordon, the Earl of Aberdeen, was laying a road at Pitmachie Farm in Aberdeenshire. He had the stone relocated to the grounds of Newton House, near Inverurie, where its enigmatic inscriptions and carvings have sparked debate ever since.
Although the stone itself may have been shaped and originally erected at a far earlier time, the inscriptions appear to be of post-Roman Pictish design, accompanied by Brittonic Ogham and some other script that has not yet been positively identified.
The 45 cursive characters vaguely resemble semi-uncial script, but with many unique symbols, including a swastika.
It has been suggested that the script may be a form of Phoenician, ancient Gaelic, archaic Latin, Greek or Gnostic symbolism.

The presence of the Ogham, which is decipherable, albeit with disputed meaning, raises the possibility that the Newton Stone may have a similar function to the famous Rosetta Stone, which bore the same text in different scripts.
The mystery remains however as to exactly what this script is:

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https://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/newton-stone-0010576

For those interested, I post the article published in 1865 and the original diagram of the interpretation of the symbols.

Source: Skeen, William Forbes . Notes on the Ogham inscription on the Newton Stone, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Vol.V, 1865​

 

[Fabio Picasso]

The oldest record of the Newton Stone, Scotland and the first published engraving, 1814

Source: Pinkerton, John . An Enquiry into the History of Scotland, Vol.I, 2nd Edition, 1814,pp.10-11., Plate I

 

[Fabio Picasso]

Newton Stone: First published reference to the letter of George Hamilton-Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen addressed to the author John Stuart, who reproduces it in his book.

George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, KG, KT, PC, FRS, FRSE, FSA Scot (28 January 1784 – 14 December 1860) styled Lord Haddo from 1791 to 1801, was a British statesman, diplomat and landowner, successively a Tory, Conservative and Peelite politician and specialist in foreign affairs. He served as Prime Minister from 1852 until 1855.

Source: Stuart, John . Sculptured Stones of Scotland, Vol.I, 1856, pp.1-2. Plate I​

 

[Fabio Picasso]

Interesting article about the possible decipherment of the Newton Stone inscription, 1864

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Source: A Puzzling Inscription, The Glasgow Herald, Nº7519, February 13, 1864, p.6

 

[Fabio Picasso]

Another Newspaper article about the possible decipherment of the Newton Stone inscription, 1924​

Source: Newton Stone Decoded, The Gridley Herald (Gridley, California) Vol.XLVII, Nº62, November 15, 1924, p.2​

 

[Fabio Picasso]

The Writings in Varkulets, False Language of Ganymees, 1953

To be there for their demonstrations, on the night of February 18, 1953—and while was located in the resort of Quilmes (Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina )—it was "picked up" by a spaceship that took him to Ganymede (one of the moons of Jupiter). The circumstances surrounding the intended trip, the formation anatomical characteristics of their captors, as well as the living conditions of the planetoid, were detailed by Zagorski in an extensive 211-page manuscript Beyond this background, he claims to maintain permanent telepathic contact with those intelligences, having come to assimilate their vernacular language, to which called "Varkulets"​

Source: Galíndez, Oscar A. Criptoanálisis del Varkulets (junio 1974), en OVNIS, Un Desafío a la Ciencia, Nº 1, CADIU, Córdoba, pgs. 22/25.​

 

[Fabio Picasso]

The Decipherment of the Newton Stone was one of the impulses to write the book .The Phoenician Origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons, 1924, by Waddel, Laurence Austine.

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Source: Claims Britons of Phoenician Stock, Quebec Daily Telegraph (Quebec, Canada) , Vol.XLIX, Nº225, September 24, 1924, p.10

 

[blessmycottonsocks]

Rongorongo (/ˈrɒŋɡoʊˈrɒŋɡoʊ/; Rapa Nui: [ˈɾoŋoˈɾoŋo]) is a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century on Easter Island that appears to be writing or proto-writing. Numerous attempts at decipherment have been made, none successfully. Although some calendrical and what might prove to be genealogical information has been identified, none of these glyphs can actually be read. If rongorongo does prove to be writing and proves to be an independent invention, it would be one of very few independent inventions of writing in human history.

The Rongorongo glyphs look to me like stylised human figures plus various fauna that the islanders were likely to encounter - crabs, squid, fish, turtles, seabirds etc.
Vertical bars separate the glyphs into sections.
I wonder if it could represent a simple hunters' tally of which tribesman caught which animals.

 

[Fabio Picasso]

Rongo Rongo is a style of writing very similar to that of the seals of Mohenjo Daro, Indus Valley

Rongo Rongo

 

[Fabio Picasso]

Fischer, Steven Roger. “Preliminary evidence for cosmogonic texts in Rapanui's rongorongo inscriptions
Abstract:

The present study demonstrates how the three Rapanui rongorongo inscriptions of the "Santiago Staff', the "Small Santiago Tablet", and "Honolulu Tablet 1" comprise to a large degree repetitive series of glyphic triads whose first constituent is invariably suffixed by a phallus-like glyph. The glyphic statement of these triads can be epitomised by the formula X1 YZn. A nearly identical structure is embodied in the text of Ure Va'e Iko' s ancient Rapanui creation chant "'Atua Mata Riri" witnessed in 1886. The discovery of these glyphic triads and their structural correspondence to Ure's cosmogony allows the first scientifically verifiable identification of the genre of a rongorongo inscription. It also suggests a partial phonetic statemen​

Source: Fischer, Steven Roger. “Preliminary evidence for cosmogonic texts in Rapanui's rongorongo inscriptions.” The Journal of the Polynesian Society, vol. 104, no. 3, 1995, pp. 303–21