Talk:Pyrgi Tablets

message: * I have doubts about some of the semitic roots. For instance, "theleth" (replace th with theta) implies that "th" (theta) is proto-semitic, but in every language I know, three is with an s or "sh" (as in shop, not aspirated). Plus, day is "yawm" not "yam" (this one I am 100% sure of, the other one I could be wrong on). I am changing the latter but will wait for confirmation on the former. Yom 16:35, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You could tell that something was going on just by comparing Hebrew Shalosh with Aramaic Telat (both found in the Bible)... AnonMoos 11:09, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: 'Three' in Arabic is thalaath (not only standard/Classical Arabic but many modern vernacular dialects, such as Iraqi).  In Hebrew, 'day' is yom in the singular but yam- in the plural.  (Also, in Arabic the plural is ayyaam, though that may or may not be relevant.)
hi, i am reading this tablet as a sign on a traveler's services establishment. i am lazy, so until someone responds, i will write what i remember now. you will come as a stranger, but leave as a friend. you can store your stuff here, and pick itup on your return. you can tay the night.  you can have a private room with bath. meals are available, or you can prepre your own. we are open all summer.  if you don't know the area, you can leave as a group with a guide. i am well-known, and my guests speak well of me.  please understand that 2000 years ago the divinity rubbish already had skeptics, and a common-sense reading makes sense.76.241.67.95 (talk) 13:26, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Semitic Roots

message: Currently, the goddess is called ‘Ashtart, Ashtaret, and Ishtar.  There should be standardization on one form, and "Astarte" is actually the most-frequently used form in English (leaving aside Hebrew Ashtaroth and Akkadian Ishtar, which are somewhat removed -- the Hebrew form has plural morphology, and the Akkadian languages are not very closely connected to Phoenician). AnonMoos 11:09, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Consistency

message: * wikipedia is not dictionary ... Semitic dictionary  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.117.137.224 (talk) 10:37, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with your opinion. Unfortunately, someone has gone ahead and deleted all discussion of vocabulary without discussing it here first. There are long word lists all over wikipedia. I don't really see how the very difficult scholarly treatment of these texts can be discussed without discussing vocabulary!Johundhar (talk) 19:16, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  wikipedia is not dictionary ... Semitic dictionary 

message: Dupont-Sommer gave a definitve translation and the reading of the text presents no problem:
here it is as quoted by G. Dumezil Archaic Roamn religion appendix:
To the Lady Astartes. This sacred place is what Teferies Velianas king of Caere has made and donated in the month of the sacrifice to the Sun, as a gift from him, including the temple and the high place, because the Lady Astartes has favoured his devout believer. In the third year of his reign in the month of KRR on the day of the funeral (inhumation) of the goddess.
And might the years during which the statue of the goddess shall reside in its temple be so numerous as the stars of the High.Zanzan32 (talk) 05:10, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semitic text  

message: Related in which level? This sentence comes after the fact that Phoenician is a Canaanite language, yet it lists 4 languages that only one of which (Hebrew) is Canaanite. Akkadian isn't even Western Semitic. TFighterPilot (talk) 18:49, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "related to such languages as..." 

message: Just setting out the texts (I can't comment on whether there are errors) isn't enough for an encyclopaedia article.  There needs to be more on the artefacts themselves (who found them, where, why were they excavating there, if they were around in Polybius' day, when do we think they got buried?) and a lot more on interpretation and significance (what are their key lessons for us, how reliable are the translations given?).Diomedea Exulans (talk) 09:49, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  gaps 

message: According to Etruscan alphabet, there was no such letter.  What is it supposed to be? — kwami (talk) 08:07, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It's the one thought to represent /kh/: 𐌙. Most scholarly articles and books today do use chi or kh for it, as far as I've seen. Johundhar (talk) 14:11, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  χ 

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message: Velthuru, I don't know if you ever read the talk sections of these pages so maybe you won't see this, but you have to stop. You clearly have an enthusiasm for this subject, but you can't just keep going around to all the Etruscan text sites and dumping your pet theories and random favorite texts there, un-cited, often incorrect or badly spelled. People get permanently blocked for that sort of thing. Some of that can happen here on talk pages, but mostly that kind of stuff doesn't belong anywhere on a wiki page. Please read some about what is and isn't allowed, then come back and make some actual, valuable contributions, please. (By the way, cool name! I just came across ETP 600 which reads: mi[ni velθ]ur paiθinaie[s mu]lu[vani]ce.) https://web.archive.org/web/20060912075450/http://etp.classics.umass.edu/index.php?page=2 Is this where it's from?Johundhar (talk) 03:35, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Velthuru: Just stop!