Re: Earth Deceleration theory likely a farce

"Moshiachyozif" <siaxares@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

But just a note. You are questioning whether there was cuneiform during the
Seleucid Period.

No, that was certainly happeneing. I'm questioning whether cuneiform
was used *after* the Seleudic period, at the time the VAT4956 tablet
was inscribed. Was cuneiform used at that time in the way Newton
wrote the Pricipia in Latin?

As I recall, thousands of astronomical texts that were examined and
catalogued by Otto Negeubauer show the actual texts. He constitutes
essentially the field of archaeoastronomy for most university libraries.
But there are pictures of these texts and they are definitely in cuneiform.
They do come out of Babylon, so unless we presume the Babylonians dropped
cuneiform and started writing Greek early one, then it's just a matter of
record when active cuneiform writing died out.

Here's your reference:

Sumerians created cuneiform
script over 5000 years ago. It was the world's first written language. The
last known cuneiform inscription was written in 75 AD.

http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Games/cuneiform.html

Right. And you said the VAT4956 was copied *after* the Seleucid
period, which puts it right at the end of cuneiform writing, if not
after... so when was this tablet inscribed, and by whom? Or are those
still open questions?
--
Dave
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