"Mantiklos" Bronze Statue From Thebes, Greece 732 BCE

The text is Etruscan in style and the language is Druid Akkadian, not Greek.

Text circles up and down the legs. It is 8 inches (20.3 cm) high. Its original letter assignments from around 1900 were:
ΜΑΝΤΙΚΛΟΣΜΑΝΕΘΕΚΕFΕΚΑΒΟΛΟΙΑΡΓΥΡΟΤΟΧΣΟΙΤΑΣΔΕΚΑΤΑΣΤΥΔΕΦΟΙΒΕΔΙΔΟΙΧΑΡΙF
The initial letters gave this statuette its name. These assignments are not even close to being correct as one can see from the letter assignments on the pictures below. Yet this fraud continues to be passed on by people who don't know any better.
Now at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Accession Number 03.997, Online at: https://collections.mfa.org/objects/152660

History

(October 21, 2023, updated March 9, 2025) This figure's artistic importance is described by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts:

This bronze statue, which is among the most important works of early Greek sculpture anywhere in the world, embodies a transitional moment when an inherited desire for geometric order merged with a burgeoning interest in more closely reproducing natural forms. A sense of bodily mass and volume, created by the rounded curves of the shoulders, thighs, and chest, helps to relieve the schematic severity of the elongated figure, while the slightly parted legs and the differing positions of the two arms create a sense of motion and alleviate the otherwise insistent symmetry of the composition.

It was found in Thebes and sent to M. Hoffmann toward the end of 1894. In 1897 it was recorded in the collection of Count Michel Tyszkiewicz. In 1898 it was auctioned at the Hotel des Commissaires-Priseurs, 9 rue Drouot, Paris, June 8-10, lot 133 (trouvée à Thèbes). In March 1903 it was purchased by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts from Edward Perry Warren. It is dated by the Museum based on its artistic style. The clockwise outer text is blaming the motion powers for a drought while the counter-clockwise inner text is blaming the life powers.

The text is promoting the use of astrology-magic to correct the fate causing the 732 BCE drought. The text also indicates that the figurine is a "shepherd," that is, a magic crafter specializing in astrology-magic. The stars in the night sky were imagined as sheep so those who worked with their powers were "shepherds."

It reads:

(clockwise outer text, starts bottom left) Angry-ones are cursing the involvement of fate. The dehydration is from the Moon-eye (Su). | Starvation is baking the confusion. Blockages have been fate-cursed. Considerations will involve shepherd's (astrology magic crafter) pasture (starry night sky). Equality is blocking Hu's instigation of energy.
(counter-clockwise inner text, starts bottom right) Confusion about astrology-magic can expel the energy for the eagle-vultures. Life-manifestations can be made ineffective by envy. Our enemies are motivated. The divine-powers can cause-irrigation. These shepherds (astrology magic crafters) can open the boundary (sky-shell). Astrology-magic will result in fertility-fluids. The Reed-Boat (Ayu) is causing anarchy.

Thebes was the leader of the Boeotian confederacy and was a major rival of ancient Athens. It sided with the Persians during their 480 BCE invasion of Greece under Xerxes I. Theban forces under the command of Epaminondas ended Spartan hegemony at the Battle of Leuctra in 371 BC, with the Sacred Band of Thebes, an elite military unit of male lovers celebrated as instrumental there. Macedonia would rise in power at the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC, bringing decisive victory to Philip II over an alliance of Thebes and Athens. Thebes was a major force in Greek history prior to its destruction by Alexander the Great in 335 BC, and was the most dominant city-state at the time of the Macedonian conquest of Greece.

Lake bottom Core sample data from the Sea of Galilee showing the droughts

Lake bottom Core sample data from the Sea of Galilee. In historical times it shows two major droughts with several minor ones. Minor droughts are indicated anytime the curves turn downward.
The 50 year long Great Drought of 1180 to 1140 BCE (Iron Age 1 period) is what ended the Bronze Age and the 5-year long Elijah drought of 845-840 BCE. The yellow gives the tree pollen level while the green gives the non-tree pollen level. (Langut and Finkelsein 2013)

Major Levant Droughts Based on Pollen Data From Sea of Galilee

(April 2, 2022) Droughts separate the archaeological periods in the Levant. States weakened by local droughts were often subject to raids right after the droughts by Mesopotamian empires which were unaffected due to their irrigation. Below is the latest widely accepted chronology proposed by Amihai Mazar in 2014 shown below:

Droughts According to Drought Chart

1180-1140 BCE - Great Drought
980 BCE
845-840 BCE - Elijah Drought
732 BCE - led to Assyrian invasion
605 BCE - led to Babylonian invasion

References

Langut, D. Finkelsein, I, Litt, T. (2013) Climate and the Late Bronze Collapse: New Evidence from the Levant. Tel Aviv 40:149-175. Online at https://www.academia.edu/6053886/Climate_and_the_Late_Bronze_Collapse_New_Evidence_from_the_Southern_Levant
Mazar, Amihai (2005) The Debate over the Chronology of the Iron Age in the Southern Levant: its History, the Current Situation and a Suggested Resolution. pp. 15-30 in: T. Levy and T. Higham (editors), The Bible and Radiocarbon Dating - Archaeology, Text and Science. London. Online at: https://www.academia.edu/2632501/The_Debate_over_the_Chronology_of_the_Iron_Age_in_the_Southern_Levant_its_History_the_Current_Situation_and_a_Suggested_Resolution_2005

Line 2 is in the traditional right to left direction while line 1 is in the new Greek left to right direction. Texts having directions in the opposite direction are usually debates with each line representing a different viewpoint.

Letters are mostly in the Etruscan style with a few in the Aegean Island style (Italic)

(October 21, 2023)

Translation of Right Leg Lines 1 and 2 in Akkadian (Med Text 45)

(line 1 is left to right, line 2 is right to left. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Verbs in italic bold. Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words)
Chart Used: Aegean Lineage, Letter style is mostly Etruscan with a few in the Aegean Island style

AGu UYu Ku Le'u. ṢaMu INu E. | EKu EPu EŠu. (Med 45.1)
Di'u IKu. A Reyu Pu ETu. Tu A Mu. AMu TuŠu. (Med 45.2)

In English

Angry-ones are cursing the involvement of fate. The dehydration is from the Moon-eye (Su). | Starvation is baking the confusion
The divine-powers can cause-irrigation. These shepherds (astrology magic crafters) can open the boundary (sky-shell). Astrology-magic will result in fertility-fluids. The Reed-Boat (Ayu) is causing anarchy.

Translation of Left Leg Lines 3 and 4 in Akkadian (Med Text 45)

Ṣe'u UYu. ANu Ku Re'u Ta'u. Šu Ṣe'u Ḫu ADu Gi (Med 45.3)
IŠu Tu AṢu Gi Ru. Du E Qi'u. YaBu EDu | (Med 45.4)

(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)

In English

Blockages have been fate-cursed. Considerations will involve shepherd's (astrology magic crafter) pasture (starry night sky). Equality is blocking Hu's instigation of energy.
Confusion about astrology-magic can expel the energy for the eagle-vultures. Life-manifestations can be made ineffective by envy. Our enemies are motivated.

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