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This token is made of siltstone, 39.41 x 41.32 x 4.81mm.
Translation
Translation
(February 19, 2025, updated May 1, 2026) This token was discovered in the summer of 2011 (3rd July – 6th August 2011) by archaeologists at the Paphos Agora Project during the first excavation campaign (Śliwa, J. 2013). It was discovered in trench II, area 2 (room 5), in the center of the Agora. Its find layer was identified as late Eastern Roman dated to the 500's CE partially due to the presence of ceramic objects of the Cypriot Red Slip Ware type.
The letter style of this token belongs to the Rhine river style, like those found in Britain and Ireland and its theme is Druid, not Christian. The text maybe about the start of the plague of Justinian. It reads:
- [A[Yu is affecting this shedding (of fate).
- Nourishments (life powers) can affect impressions making-ineffective the fate-revelations of the Supervisor (Su)
- Emotion-powers (Awen) can emotionally-affect the threading of all-high-powers. Control the energies.
- Involving fate-revelations does not make-sticky those-powers. Shifting attention is ineffective.
- That stickiness from the Moon-eye (Su) can involve the astrological-fate-powers affecting the lack.
- Envy revelations can curse the fertility-fluids disablement.
- Fate-revelations can disable the spirit-streams of the priest-parent's activities. (they integrate life and motion powers)
Comment: Ayu is a life power and the crescent moon goddess controlling the editing of the divine irrigation network which distributes the life powers to earth. Priest-parents are the Druid priestly class which works with life powers.
Previously Attempted Translation by Silwa
Previously Attempted Translation by Silwa
The letter assignments are shown below. These were forced to fit a palindrome letter pattern which anyone can see just by looking at the token does not exist.
- IAEW
- ΒΑΦΡΕΝΕΜ
- ΟΥΝΟΘΙΛΑΡΙ
- ΚΝΙΦΙΑΕΥΕ
- ΑΙΦΙΝΚΙΡΑΛ
- ΙΘΟΝΥΟΜΕ
- ΝΕΡΦΑΒW
- ΕΑΙ
Which is claimed to read:
“Yahweh is the bearer of the secret name, the lion of Re secure in his shrine”
Comment: First the letter assignments are way wrong as one can see from the translation justification below. Second, the translation is Greek is just ludicrous.
References
References
Paphos Agora Project. https://paphos-agora.archeo.uj.edu.pl/en_GB
Śliwa, J. (2013) Magical amulet from Paphos with the iaew - palindrome, Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization 17, 293-301. Online at: https://www.academia.edu/14185465/Magical_Amulet_from_Paphos_with_the_%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%B5%CF%89_palindrome_2013_
Paphos Map
Paphos Map
Scan by Vitaliia Pavlyshyn via Wikimedia Commons at:
Backside of Paphos Token
Backside of Paphos Token
This image is a mix of Egyptian and Greek themes. It shows Herakles with his club among the heavens (star and crescent moon) being attacked by a snake associated with the boat of death ferrying a body across the sky-shell. The bird behind the boat is likely an eagle-vulture. At the very bottom is the Egyptian crocodile protective god Sobek. The crocodile and mummified body are Egyptian themes while Herakles is Greek.
Translation of Lines 1 and 2 in Akkadian (Med Text 74)
(read right to left. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Verbs are italic bold. Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration.Translation of Lines 1 and 2 in Akkadian (Med Text 74)
Runic Letter Style is Mostly Aegean with some later Hellenistic. Letter Chart Used: Levant Lineage
- [A]Yu A EṢu
- Bu A ṬaRu E Nu EMu
In English
In English
- [A[Yu is affecting this shedding.
- Nourishments (life powers) can affect impressions making-ineffective the fate-revelations of the Supervisor (Su)
Translation of Lines 3 and 4 in Akkadian (Med Text 74)
(read right to left. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Verbs are italic bold. Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration.Translation of Lines 3 and 4 in Akkadian (Med Text 74)
Runic Letter Style is Mostly Aegean with some later Hellenistic. Letter Chart Used: Levant Lineage
- AWu Ne'u Qu ILu. ARu Gi
- Ku Nu IṬu Ya A. EWu E
In English
In English
- Emotion-powers (Awen) can emotionally-affect the threading of all-high-powers. Control the energies.
- Involving revelations (of fate) does not make-sticky those-powers. Shifting attention is ineffective.
Translation of Lines 5 and 6 in Akkadian (Med Text 74)
(read right to left. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Verbs are italic bold. Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration.Translation of Lines 5 and 6 in Akkadian (Med Text 74)
Runic Letter Style is Mostly Aegean with some later Hellenistic. Letter Chart Used: Levant Lineage
- A IṬu INu Ku IRu A Lu
- Qi'u Nu U'a M E
In English
In English
- That stickiness from the Moon-eye (Su) can involve the astrological-fate-powers affecting the lack.
- Envy revelations can curse the fertility-fluids disablement.
Translation of Line 7 in Akkadian (Med Text 74)
(read right to left. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Verbs are italic bold. Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration.Translation of Line 7 in Akkadian (Med Text 74)
Runic Letter Style is Mostly Aegean with some later Hellenistic. Letter Chart Used: Levant Lineage
- Nu E ReṬu ABu Ṣu
In English
In English
- Fate-revelations can disable the spirit-streams of the priest-parent's activities. (they integrate life and motion powers)
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