<bron156.htm> [Bronze Age Text]
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A prayer to the earth-mother, Goib Dia Beanu leas fasan = "Pray to Beanu that the corn may grow." The inscription was cut into the lava rock face at
a Norse Iberian site at East Peninsula, Tule Lake, CA. It is common at this site to find
separate staves of letters such as "n", "c" and
"r" (which use 5 staves each) joined in a zigzag manner as shown
here. Scribes at this site also
transferred the arris above or below the characters if there is a long
sequence of lower- or upper-case letters.
In this example the transition from a medial stem line to one that
passes above the line is shown well.
The word dia (= goddess) seems to have
been inserted as an afterthought as it is crammed into the oi. |
