Re: Scandinavian Inscription?

"Yitzhak Sapir" <ys_archaeology@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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For those interested, the "Scandinavian Inscription"
previously
mentioned is identified as a Safaitic inscription from Umm el-
Hawa (Jordan) dating 1st century BCE to 3rd century CE,
apparently.

See here:
1)
http://www.kah-bonn.de/presse_alt/fotouebersicht/f_jordanien_e.htm
2)

http://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/pd--11723680/sp--A/Stone_inscribed_with_a_dancer_flute_player_and_safaitic_inscription_1st_century_BC3rd_century_AD.htm#


Thanks for getting back to us on that. I knew it wasn't
Scandinavian but had no idea what it was. Now I had to look up
Safaitic to see what that as:

http://www.mnh.si.edu/epigraphy/e_pre-islamic/safaitic.htm

It's related to Nabataean, which in turn may have given the
forms of a few Germanic runes:

http://www.raa.se/kvhaab/fornvann/20030404.htm


So there was a Scandinavian link, however tenuous.

Alan

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Alan Crozier
Lund
Sweden


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