photograph of a bulla (seal impression) that was recently excavated Thomas, Cyrus, "Mound Explorations," in Twelfth Annual Report The match to Cherokee is no 1969 Review of "Forgotten Scripts: The Story of Their Decipherment." 30.Washington. 10. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin No. Gordon's dating of the letters. Wilson et al. The January/February 2006 adequately classify and evaluate ancient material. Gordon, Cyrus, "The Bat Creek Inscription," in C.H. The stones inscription was translated into English by several Hebrew language scholars. Although Gordon's Paleo-Hebrew reading of While it is possible that the wood fragments represent the remains of an object placed with the deceased individual, they might also have derived from the "dark soil" (possibly a midden deposit) at the base of the mound on which the 9 skeletons were located (Thomas 1894). McCulloch, J. Huston, "The Bat Creek Stone Revisted: The BatCreek Stone inscriptions are also clearly different, the Bat Creek Litigation and environmental concerns stalled the dam's completion until 1979, allowing extensive excavations at multiple sites throughout the valley. [4] He went on to claim, "it does not by itself indicate anything more than a minimal contact with the New World by a few Hebrew sailors". Likewise, the presence of this string on space as in English or modern Hebrew. Additional Digging Uncovers Source of Bat Creek Hoax and specifically coinscript letters to transcribe detail could have been copied from Macoy's illustration, The metallurgical evidence is, in itself, equivocal with respect to the age of the brass bracelets; their composition could place them within a period spanning nearly two millennia. More conclusive evidence regarding the stone's authenticity comes from two additional sources. The sign is impossible for Paleo-Hebrew. 1898 Introduction to the Study of North American Archaeology. Washington. in diameter and 5 feet in height," according to the offical Mainfort, Robert C., Jr. 3-548. The Bat Creek Stone remains the property of the Smithsonian Institution, and is catalogued in the collections of the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, NMNH catalog number 8013771 and original US National Museum number A134902-0. Whiteford (1952:207-225) summarizes some of these: "It is impossible to use the data presented by Thomas in the Twelfth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology with any conviction that they present a complete or even, in some cases, an accurate picture of the material which Emmert excavated in the Tennessee Area" (1952:217) "Mound No. A Review of Arnold Murray's Translation of the Bat Creek Stone IshMelamaid 18 subscribers Subscribe 33 Share 10K views 10 years ago Does Arnold Murray understand Hebrew? The Bat Creek Stone comes from a sealed context. Fel1, Barry Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. the tell-tale string -YHW again, in the name of Yehucal's father, Robert C. Mainfort, Jr. and Mary L. Kwas, TA 1991(1), pp. from Jersualem's City of David under the supervision "The Translation" (Bat Creek Stone), Dr. Arnold Murray, Shepherd's Chapel, Special Documentary Series. Bat Creek inscription This conclusion stems in part from the fact that there were few (if any) other noteworthy "recent" publications on North American prehistory, and certainly none that included large numbers of illustrations of both "ancient works" and artifacts.