Gold Temple Foils from Pyrgi, Italy (600-580 BCE)

(Feb 9, 2023) Two are in Etruscan script and one in Phoenician script but the language of all is Akkadian. The two Druid civilizations were allied at least between between 600 and 530 BCE against the Greeks and Romans and this temple on the shoreline was probably built for that alliance. The Phoenician and short Etruscan text are in agreement about the cause of a drought occurring between 600 and 580 BCE. Now at: Etruscan Museum in Rome. Online at: 
https://www.museoetru.it/masterpieces/lamine-doro-da-pyrgiEnglish: https://www.museoetru.it/enFor translation methodology see: How to Translate Alphabetic Akkadian Texts

Short Etruscan Text

(Feb 9, 2023) This text blames the drought on the emotional desires (emotion magic) of the general population for being too effective in moving fertility fluids through the life network when the network channels have become restricted (crimped). This empties the channels.

(Med Text 8)
  1. The fate-curse is because of the nesting. Su is not observant. Nothing is opening the high-powers.
  2. [word] crimps [word]. The Revealer is being baked. The Reed-boat (Ayu) is not from the planets
  3. The Constrainer (Ayu) is this dryer.  This boundary is revealing Alu.
  4. Fertility-fluids are being associated by considerations (focused emotional thoughts).  Magic is not being affected by the magic-crafters.
  5. Crimping (of the channels) is not revealing the associations.  Activations dry-out the high-powers of the life-priests 
  6. Life-priests curse the high-powers.  Yahu (YA) is lacking them.
  7. Open the high-powers.  Amplify Alu's Reed-boat patrollers (eagle-vultures)
  8. Death-powers lack crimping.  Storm-powers are being amplified.
  9. Associations are revealing the misery of expectations (which activate the restricted fertility fluids thus emptying them completely)

Phoenician/Punic Text

(Feb 9, 2023) This text mostly agrees with the first in another indication of a Punic/Etruscan alliance. It  blames the general angry emotional state of the population for emptying the restricted life network channels. The corrective measure is to enlist the motions powers of the night sky to compensate for the emotion triggered motions.

(Med Text 1)
  1. Emotion-owls are swarming Yahu (I'). Due to astrology-divinations about the threads, astrological owls are driving the eagle-vulture's involvement.
  2. Associations with astrological-owls do not astrological-empower the crimping.  That is due to undermining the Revealer (Yahu).
  3. Don't death-empower Alu's association (with motion powers).  The Baker (sun Hu) does not supervise that
  4. Emanations do not bring the Reed-Boat (Ayu). Drunkenness is wind-empowering the activities opening her eagle-vultures.
  5. (Network) Bindings are being sown to undermine of the Revealer. Life-Priests are nourishing the commands crimping the goodness
  6. Threads revealing the network-birds are due to astrological-divination. The thread's Controllers (Ayu and eagle-vultures) are sowing the setting (of the network).
  7. Emotions are redirecting magic due to the out-pouring of weapons from the 3 houses.
  8. Anoint the efforts of the authorities (planets). Curse the connections of the eagle-vultures.
  9. Ayu's fertility-fluids are being woven by the threads. Emotion's emotion-owls gate Ayu's fertility-fluids. (ends on 2nd line after BiBu)
  10. Threads are being disciplined by the out-pouring (of emotions). Su dries the fertility-fluids. Open nourishments for
  11. Ayu.

Long Etruscan Text

(Feb 9, 2023) This is a rebuttal to the first two texts, probably written some time later. This text blames the magic crafters and their wind/breath/spirit powers for messing up the flows of fertility fluids (life powers)  through the life network. Therefore life powers are not getting through no matter what the life-priests do.

(Med Text 7)
  1. [ ] is activated by magic.  Yahu is being acknowledged by life-priests (fathers). Hu is nothing.
  2. Life-Manifestations [verb] the Reed-Boat's (Ayu's) [ ].  That devotion is confusing the openings.
  3. Don't death-empower Alu's association (with motion powers).  The Baker (sun Hu) does not supervise that
  4. Emanations did not bring the Reed-Boat. Drunkenness is wind-empowering the activities opening her eagle-vultures
  5. Life-manifestations are not from eagle-vultures.  The Greaser (Selu) is not coming from Yahu (YA, IA). The Revealer (Yahu) is associating with the emanations of Alu.
  6. [Life-manifestations] lack nourishments. Wind-powers are reassigning Yahu's (YA, IA) emanations.  Motion-magic [is being messed-up] by magic-crafters.
  7. Nourishments are crimped by the supervisor (Ayu). The Revealer does not affect proper-portions.  Those are being baked by the wind-power's associations (with the life-powers).
  8. Magic enlightens the Reed-boat (Ayu). Emanations are nourishing Ayu. Energy does not come from the opening of life-priests. 
  9. Magic enlightens the Imagineer. Associating is reassigning the emotion-owls. Nourishments don't open Yahu (YA, IA)
  10. Influences are opened by magic-crafters.  Observations pass-through magic. Yahu's (YA, IA) fertility-fluids do not bring omens.  
  11. Alu is not bringing the high-powers.  Life-priests (Fathers) do not bring the openings.  Alu does not bring associated activity.
  12. [subject] life-priests those    .  Acknowledgements do not being considerations.  Emanations are lacking the high-powers of the life-priests.
  13. Alu's emanations are not bringing the high-powers. Omens about Alu are revealed by his life-priests.  Those are activating the openings. 
  14. None of the life-manifestations are being emanated. Omens are emotionally-triggered by considerations. Hu is lacking the life-manifestations for the Reed-boat (Ayu).
  15. None of the openings are veiling high-powers. Don't  reassign the life-priests. Be angry at the misery.
  16. The storm-powers are amplifying that.
  17. ----
  18. Greaser (epithet for motion source goddess Selu, Selene) - Celtic graffito seems to blame goddess Selene for the troubles.
  19. Greaser (Celtic graffito based on letter style)
Gold Temple Foils from Pyrgi (600-530 BCE) as displayed in 2019

Gold Foils as Now Displayed at Etruscan Museum in Rome

These were presumably once nailed onto a wall at the temple. This implies a fair number of people were literate. (Olmsted personal photo 2019)
ETRU Museo Nazionale Etrusco, Villa Giulia in Rome, Italyhttps://www.museoetru.it/en
Model of Pyrgi Temple "A" Displayed at Etruscan Museum in Rome

Model of Second Pyrgi Temple "A" Displayed at Etruscan Museum in Rome

Archaeologists think this temple was built over an older one. The gold foils were found hidden in a storage pit (Area C) between temples A and B. (Olmsted personal photo 2019)
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Map of Pyrgi Temple (A), Shrine (B), Area C, and Row of 20 Guest Rooms on the Right

Map of Pyrgi Temple (A), Shrine (B), Area C, and Row of 20 Guest Rooms on the Right

Temple complex with temple on right and shrine on Left. The temple A was built around 484 BCE and it was also used for work spaces and store rooms. The shrine B was finished 25 years earlier in 510 BCE. Attached to the shrine was room C which contained the repository holding the rolled up golden foils.  The red dots represent stone column placements (Olmsted personal photo from at Etruscan Museum in Rome)
Aerial View of Pyrgi Temple Site Along the Italian Coast Today

Aerial View of Pyrgi Temple Site Along the Italian Coast Today

(Olmsted personal photo from at Etruscan Museum in Rome)

Pyrgi is number 18 in the close-up. Dots show location where trade goods from the Levant were found. (from Aubet 2016)

Find location of Pyrgi Gold Foils in Area C. The foils were found rolled up and carefully placed in the rectangular stone box in the upper part of the picture. (from Aubet 2016)
Find location of Pyrgi Gold Foils in Area C. The foils were found rolled up and carefully placed in the rectangular stone box in the upper part of the picture. (from Aubet 2016)

Pyrgi Temple Archaeology

During the early 1960’s, archaeological excavations uncovered two temples along a major road between Caere and its coastal port town of Pyrgi. The earliest finds along this road date the road to the about 700 BCE. Also discovered along the road were a stone temple and its workshop annex. The Temple (building A) was built first and dates to 530 BCE while its annex (building B) was finished 20 years later and dates to 510 BCE. Both of them were eventually destroyed by fire presumably by the Alpine Celts in 387 BCE when they also sacked Rome. 

Presumably this mostly stone temple replaced an earlier wooden temple and this is the one which held the foils at a time  when the Etruscans were allied with the Carthaginians between 600 and 530 BCE

 A date earlier than the stone temples is suggested because the texts were found preserved and placed rolled up in a special repository instead of melted down as would normally be the case from a Celtic raid. Because the text is a debate about the proper ritual response to a drought the texts likely date to the first major drought prior to the building of the stone temple. That pushes the date back to the Babylonian invasion drought of 600 BCE. 

A paper by Agostini and Zavaroni (2000) describes the find:


In 1964, the archaeological excavations directed by Massirno Pallottino­ reserved an exceptional surprise. During the exploration of the site, they brought to light a small rectangular "pool" in the area between temple A and B. The archaeologists found inside it three golden plates, together with a fourth bronze plate (CIE 6312) and several architectonic terra-cottas. When the gol­den plates came to the light, they were rolled up so as to form a sort of "scrolI." After careful unfolding, they were found to be in an excellent state. Two of the golden plate

References

Agostini, P., &  Zavaroni, A. (2000) The bilingual Phoenician-Etruscan text of the golden plates of Pyrgi  FILOLOGIJA 34(2000), 3-48. Online at:  https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/31e6/2bd8f6fc09ea918d0f14ca4b7f0c24298efb.pdf 
Aubet, María Eugenia (2016) Phoenician Politics in Colonial Context: Pyrgi Again. In Assyria to Iberia
Art and Culture in the Iron Age edited by Joan Aruz and Michael Seymour. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Online at: https://www.academia.edu/31497230/Assyria_to_Iberia?email_work_card=view-paper 
Colonna (2002) Il santuario di Pyrgi dalle origini mitistoriche agli altorilievi frontonali dei Sette e di Leucotea. Scienze dell’Antichità 10, pp. 251 – 336.   
Map showing the Etruscan lands prior to their take-over by the Romans
Map showing the Etruscan lands at their maximum extent prior to their take-over by the Romans and Celts. From https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Expans%C3%A3o_etrusca-es.svg

Etruscan History

(Sept. 14, 2022) The Greeks called them Τυρρηνοί (Tyrrhēnoi) and earlier Τυρσηνοί (Tyrsēnoi). The Latins called them Tusci or Etrusci. This seems to derive from the Akkadian compound word târu.ṣi meaning "turners of activity-powers" in which "turning" is the process of shaping pottery and "activity" is the process of growing life. The Etruscans used magic to shape the powers of life.

The Etruscans gained their wealth from the mining and trade of copper and iron. Their commercial interests collided with those of the Greeks after Greeks were pushed from Anatolia by the Persians. These Greeks founded colonies along the coast of Sardinia, Spain and Corsica and what is now Marseille France in 600 BCE. This led the Etruscans to ally themselves with Carthage whose people also spoke Akkadian.

After the Battle of Alalia around 540 BCE Carthage managed to expand its sphere of influence at the expense of the Greeks.  Etruria regained control of the northern Tyrrhenian Sea with full ownership of Corsica at the cost of losing their southern colonies to Carthage. In 480 BC, Etruria's ally Carthage was defeated by a coalition of Magna Graecia cities led by Syracuse in Sicily. A few years later, in 474 BC, Syracuse's tyrant Hiero defeated the Etruscans at the Battle of Cumae. Etruria's influence over the cities of Latium and Campania weakened and the area was taken over by Romans and Samnites.

Eturia came into conflict with Rome beginning in 396 BCE with the conquest of Veii by Roman army under M. Furius Camillus. This pressure ended temporarily when in 387 BCE the Gauls under Brennus sacked the city of Rome possibly as an alley of Eturia. The large Ara della Regina temple in Tarquinia dating to the 500’s BCE was possibly damaged during this time because between 380 and 350 BCE it was reconstructed and expanded. 

Veii seems to have revolted bringing parts of Eturia into conflict with Rome once again between 358 and 351 BCE. The war ended with Veii and Caere coming under Roman domination permanently. Rome then turned its attention to expanding southward against the Samnites.  Etruscans seem to have started their last failed war with Rome around 311 BCE while Rome was involved in a southern Italian war. After that they were absorbed into Roman society.

Goddess Ayu from Pyrgi Temple Guest Room

Goddess Ayu from Pyrgi Temple Guest Room

This figurine has wings and what seems to be sun rays around its head. (Olmsted personal photo from at Etruscan Museum in Rome)
Eagle Vulture from Pyrgi Temple Guest Room

Eagle Vulture from Pyrgi Temple Guest Room

(Olmsted personal photo from at Etruscan Museum in Rome)
Other Pyrgi Temple Guest Room Figurines (Skadi on Right)

Other Pyrgi Temple Guest Room Figurines 

(Olmsted personal photo from at Etruscan Museum in Rome)

Previous Translation Attempts of the Pyrgi Foils

Several earlier translations of the Pyrgi foils are floating around but all are flawed. Some even claim to be based on a Phoenician dictionary yet no such dictionary exists because no good translation exists. Previous ones are either salad bowl translation or connect the dot translations. These texts do not have word dividers in them.

A connect-the-dot translation consists of the translator picking out a set of seemingly recognizable words scattered throughout the text (the dots) then connecting them with imaginary phrases ignoring most of the letters in between the dots.  

A salad bowl translation consists of drawing on word roots from all sorts of more recent languages in the general area and then coming up with weird and esoteric grammatical endings to fill out most of the remaining letters.

In addition, the letter assignments are usually wrong because they are not compared across the whole Mediterranean region. Often letter assignments are even fraudulent being made more to fit a desired word instead of keeping consistency. 

Lots of names are another indicator of a failed translation because they can be any combination of letters. Names are often forced into names known from of later times although at the cost of ignoring some letters. As long as the sound is close all is good!

And of course, these translations are not done to the scholar's standard. Without having standards, effective peer review does not exist. This is why the field of ancient linguistics is analogous at the antiquarian stage of digging up historical artifacts before standards were applied tranforming it into archaeology.

Previous Translations

(Salad Bowl) Agostini, P., &  Zavaroni, A. (2000) The bilingual Phoenician-Etruscan text of the golden plates of Pyrgi  FILOLOGIJA 34(2000), 3-48. Online at:  https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/31e6/2bd8f6fc09ea918d0f14ca4b7f0c24298efb.pdf
Colonna (2002) Il santuario di Pyrgi dalle origini mitistoriche agli altorilievi frontonalidei Sette e di Leucotea. Scienze dell’Antichità 10 , pp. 251 – 336.
(Salad Bowl) Zamore, Jose A. (2015) Pyrgi Revisited. An Analysis into the Structure and Formulae of Pyrgi’s Phoenician Text. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292989034_Pyrgi_Revisited_An_Analysis_into_the_Structure_and_Formulae_of_Pyrgi%27s_Phoenician_Text

Translation Justification of Pyrgi Foils

Etruscan Pyrgi Temple Long Text Lines 1 and 2

Translation in Akkadian 

(Read right to left. Capital letters on foil Small letters are inferred Inner vowels)
  1. ??A  Tu  AWu.  YA  TuDdu  ABu.  Ḫu  E (Med 7.1)
  2. Du AM A?.  ??P A.  TP  EŠu  Pu (Med 7.2)

In English

  1. [ ] is activated by magic.  Yahu is being acknowledged by life-priests (fathers). Hu is nothing.
  2. Life-Manifestations [verb] the Reed-Boat's (Ayu's) [ ].  That devotion is confusing the openings.

Etruscan Pyrgi Temple Long Text Lines 3 and 4

Translation in Akkadian

(Read right to left. Capital letters on foil Small letters are inferred Inner vowels)
  1. UGu Ya ALu AZu [ ].  Z'u  EMu  Ya  A (Med 7.3)
  2. Zu AMu E.  Š'u  UPu  A'u.  Pu  Ru  A (Med 7.4)

In English. 

  1. Don't death-empower Alu's association (with motion powers).  The Baker (sun Hu) does not supervise that
  2. Emanations do not bring the Reed-Boat. Drunkenness is wind-empowering the activities opening her eagle-vultures

Etruscan Pyrgi Temple Long Text Lines 5 and 6

Translation in Akkadian

(Read right to left. Capital letters on foil Small letters are inferred Inner vowels)
  1. Du  Ru  E.  IP  E  YAu.  Nu  AZ  Zu  ALu (Med 7.5)
  2. [1] Bu Lu. UPu ENu YAu Zu. Tu UDu U[1]   (Med 7.6)

In English. 

  1. Life-manifestations are not from eagle-vultures.  The Greaser (Selu) is not coming from Yahu (YA, IA). The Revealer (Yahu) is associating with the emanations of Alu.
  2. [Life-manifestations] lack nourishments. Wind-powers are reassigning Yahu's (YA, IA) emanations.  Motion-magic [is being messed-up] by magic-crafters.

Etruscan Pyrgi Temple Long Text Lines 7 and 8

Translation in Akkadian

(Read right to left. Capital letters on foil Small letters are inferred Inner vowels)
  1. Bu  EMu  Wu.  Nu  Ya  ZiTti.  A  Z'  UP  AZ    (Med 7.7)
  2. Tu  AMu  EDu.  Zu  Bu  AYu.  Gi  AB  P  E   (Med 7.8)

In English

  1. Nourishments are crimped by the supervisor (Ayu). The Revealer does not affect proper-portions.  Those are being baked by the wind-power's associations (with the life-powers).
  2. Magic enlightens the Reed-boat (Ayu). Emanations are nourishing Ayu. Energy does not come from the opening life-priests. 

Etruscan Pyrgi Temple Long Text Lines 9 and 10

Translation in Akkadian

(Read right to left. Capital letters on foil Small letters are inferred Inner vowels)
  1. Tu  WaLu  ED.  AZu  ENu  AKu.  Bu  YAu  Pu  Ya (Med 7.9)
  2.  LaŠu  UDu  Pu.  ADu  Tu  EṢu.  YA  Mu  E  ITu   (Med 7.10)

In English

  1. Magic enlightens the Imagineer. Associating is reassigning the emotion-owls. Nourishments don't open Yahu (YA, IA)
  2. Influences are opened by magic-crafters.  Observations pass-through magic. Yahu's (YA, IA) fertility-fluids do not bring omens.  

Etruscan Pyrgi Temple Long Text Lines 11 and 12

Translation in Akkadian

(Read right to left. Capital letters on foil Small letters are inferred Inner vowels)
  1. ALu  E  ILu.  ABu  P  E.  AL  Ṣ  AZ  E   (Med 7.11)
  2. [2]  ABu  A.  TuDdu  ANu  E.  Zu  Lu  ILu  ABu   (Med 7.112)

In English

  1. Alu is not bringing the high-powers.  Life-priests (Fathers) do not bring the openings.  Alu does not bring associated activity.
  2. [subject] life-priests those    .  Acknowledgements do not being considerations.  Emanations are lacking the high-powers of the life-priests.

Etruscan Pyrgi Temple Long Text Lines 13 and 14

Translation in Akkadian

(Read right to left. Capital letters on foil Small letters are inferred Inner vowels)
  1. ALu  Zu  ELu  E.  ITu  ALu  A  ABu  Nu.  A  Ṣu  Pu (Med 7.13)
  2. E  Du  Zu.  ITu  AN  IMu.  Ḫu  Lu  Du  AM   (Med 7.14)

In English

  1. Alu's emanations are not bringing the high-powers. Omens about Alu are revealed by his life-priests.  Those are activating the openings. 
  2. None of the life-manifestations are being emanated. Omens are emotionally-triggered by considerations. Hu is lacking the life-manifestations for the Reed-boat (Ayu).

Etruscan Pyrgi Temple Long Text Lines 15 and 16

Translation in Akkadian

(Read right to left. Capital letters on foil Small letters are inferred Inner vowels)
  1. Pu  E  APu  ILu.  EN  Ya  AB.  AGu  UYa   (Med 7.15)
  2. UMu  ŠPu  A   (Med 7.16)
  3. IPu (Alpine Celtic Graffito)
  4. IPu (Alpine Celtic Graffito)

In English

  1. None of the openings are veiling high-powers. Don't  reassign the life-priests. Be angry at the misery.
  2. The storm-powers are amplifying that.
  3. Greaser (epithet for motion source goddess Selu, Selene) - apparently some Celtic visitors blamed goddess Selene for the troubles.
  4. Greaser (epithet for Selu, Selene)

Short Etruscan Foil

Etruscan Pyrgi Short Text Lines 1 and 2

Translation in Akkadian

(Read right to left. Capital letters on foil Small letters are inferred Inner vowels)
  1. WA  B'u  U.  Su  ADu  Ya.  E  Pu  ELu    (Med 8.1)
  2. [2] Wu.  Nu  A  Z'u.  AMu  UBu  E   (Med 8.2)

In English

  1. The fate-curse is because of the nesting.  Su is not observant. Nothing is opening the high-powers.
  2. [word] crimps [word]. The Revealer is being baked. The Reed-boat is not from planets

Etruscan Pyrgi Short Text Lines 3 and 4

Translation in Akkadian

(Read right to left. Capital letters on foil Small letters are inferred Inner vowels)
  1. BLu  EPu  A.  ET  A  Nu  ALu      (Med 8.3)
  2. Mu  AZu  ANu.  Tu  Ya  UDu    (Med 8.4)

In English

  1. The Constrainer (Ayu) is that dryer.  That boundary is revealing Alu.
  2. Fertility-fluids are being associated by considerations (focused emotional thoughts).  Magic is not being affected by the magic-crafters.

Etruscan Pyrgi Short Text Lines 5 and 6

Translation in Akkadian

(Read right to left. Capital letters on foil Small letters are inferred Inner vowels)
  1. Wu  Nu  Ya  AZu.  Ṣu  ELu  ABu  EPu       (Med 8.5)
  2. ABu  ALu  TMu.  YAu  Lu  A    (Med 8.6)

In English

  1. Crimping is not revealing the associations.  Activations dry-out the high-powers of the life-priests 
  2. Life-priests curse the high-powers.  Yahu (YA) is lacking them.

Etruscan Pyrgi Short Text Lines 7 and 8

Translation in Akkadian

(Read right to left. Capital letters on foil Small letters are inferred Inner vowels)
  1. Pu  ILu.  ŠPu  ALu  AMu  UBu    (Med 8.7)
  2. EG  Wu  Lu.  UMu  ŠPu (Med 8.8)

In English

  1. Open the high-powers.  Amplify Alu's Reed-boat patrollers (eagle-vultures)
  2. Death-powers lack crimping.  Storm-powers are being amplified.

Etruscan Pyrgi Short Text Line 9

Translation in Akkadian

(Read right to left. Capital letters on foil Small letters are inferred Inner vowels)
  1. AZu  Nu  UYu  AQu      (Med 8.9)

In English

  1. Associations are revealing the misery of expectations (which activate the restricted fertility fluids thus emptying them completely)

Phoenician/Punic Text

Phoenician/Punic Pyrgi Text Lines 1 and 2

Translation in Akkadian

(Read right to left. Capital letters on foil Small letters are inferred Inner vowels)
  1. IRu  BaQu  I'u.  Ku  QeRu,  Qu  AKu  ReDu  Ru  Ku    (Med 1.1)
  2. AZ  AK  L'u  Ya  Wu.  A  Ku  MiQqi  Nu (Med 1.2)

In English

  1. Emotion-owls are swarming Yahu (I'). Due to astrology-divinations about the threads, astrological owls are driving the eagle-vulture's involvement.
  2. Associations with astrological-owls do not astrological-empower the crimping.  That is due to undermining the Revealer (Yahu).

Phoenician/Punic Pyrgi Text Lines 3 and 4

Translation in Akkadian

(Read right to left. Capital letters on foil Small letters are inferred Inner vowels)
  1. Qu  BaRu  Tu  AWa.  INu  KaMu  Ya  Pa'Yu       (Med 1.3)
  2. ŠaTu  KaRu  Tu.  ABu  TaRu  Ḫu  Zu  BaḪu (Med 1.4)

In English

  1. Threads are activated by magical Seers.  The Moon-Eye (Su) cannot bind the network birds (owls, eagle-vultures).
  2. The network is being reduced by magic.  Life-priests are shaping Ḫu's thin emanations.

Phoenician/Punic Pyrgi Text Lines 5 and 6

Translation in Akkadian

(Read right to left. Capital letters on foil Small letters are inferred Inner vowels)
  1. KaMu  KaBu  MiQqu  Nu.  ABu  Bu  QaBu  Wu  BaNu  (Med 1.5)
  2. Qu Nu  Pa'u  Ku  QeRu  Qu  ARu  KaBu  ReTu (Med 1.6)

In English

  1. (Network) Bindings are being sown to undermine of the Revealer. Life-Priests are nourishing the commands crimping the goodness
  2. Threads revealing the network-birds are due to astrological-divination. The thread's Controllers (Ayu and eagle-vultures) are sowing the setting (of the network).

Phoenician/Punic Pyrgi Text Lines 7 and 8

Translation in Akkadian

(Read right to left. Capital letters on foil Small letters are inferred Inner vowels)
  1. IMu  IWu  Tu  Ku  NiQu  KIKu  3  BT    (Med 1.7)
  2. RaḪu  PaRu  RaBu.  TaMu  DaBbu  Ru (Med 1.8)

In English

  1. Emotions are redirecting magic due to the out-pouring of weapons from the 3 houses.
  2. Anoint the efforts of the authorities (planets). Curse the connections of the eagle-vultures.

Phoenician/Punic Pyrgi Text Lines 9 and 10, 11

Translation in Akkadian

(Read right to left. Capital letters on foil Small letters are inferred Inner vowels)
  1. Ayu Mu UKu  Qu.  IM  AK  Ayu  M    (Med 1.9)
  2. BiBu.  Qu  TuKku  NiQu.  Su  Mu  EPu.  Pu  BaMu   (Med 1.10)
  3. Ayu

In English

  1. Ayu's fertility-fluids are being woven by the threads. Emotion's emotion-owls gate Ayu's fertility-fluids. (ends on 2nd line after BiBu)
  2. Threads are being disciplined by the out-pouring (of emotions). Su  dries the fertility-fluids. Open the nourishments for
  3. Ayu.