Runestone Of The Vault (Abóbada) 500 BCE

Stele at Museum of Beja, Portugal.  Image is of a woman holding spindle whorls.  According to the text she is the "Imager," the feminine power of life manifestation and complement to the life form image revealer Yahu. She opens up the invisible image so it can be filled by Yahu with amorphous matter (dust). She is the one who allows the threads of the life network to trigger the manifestation process. Photo from: https://alentejo.sulinformacao.pt/en/2014/11/estela-do-guerreiro-foi-escolhida-para-o-young-scenographers-contest/

Spindle Whorls From Southern France Dated to 200 CE

Spindle whorls from southern France dated to 200 CE. On display at the Museum of Archaeology in Clermont, France.  https://www.pinterest.com/pin/511440101405346482/

Runestone Displayed at Museum of Beja, Portugal.

Photo from Regional Museum of Beja, Portugal. Online at:http://www.estelasdecoradas.es/paginas/gomes_aires.php

Stele Of The Vault (Abóbada), Beja District, Portugal

(September 3, 2023, updated March 18, 2025) This runestone was found near Aldeia dos Fernandes, Almodôvar, in the Beja district of Portugal. It was found by D. Joaquín Miguel doing agricultural work on his property in 1972. It was buried and covering a cremation urn with the text and image facing down. Therefore, it had an archaeological context which could have been used to date it but wasn't. It is now at the Regional Museum of Beja, Portugal. 

This text is arguing against the use of emotion magic which was thought to be sponsored by the deity Thu.

It reads:

  1. (main text enclosing person) Fertility-fluids are being shepherded by emotional-constraints. Hu and Thu are being pushed-away.  The lack is revealing the veil. The nest (life-network) is revealing the burning. Activity (motion powers) is fate-cursing Hu.
  2. (Another person's comment around upper left) Instigating Thu will result in the divine-motion-powers being ineffective.  That equality will result in Yahu manifesting emotional-affects.

References

 http://www.estelasdecoradas.es/paginas/gomes_aires.php

  1. Lexicon Used: Alphabetic Akkadian Lexicon - 4th Edition 2023. Online at: https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:55809/
  2. Letter Chart Used:  Central Mediterranean Letters
  3. Deity Summary: Ancient Pagan Paradigm

A somewhat similar image of a naked lady sitting sideways on a horse with her back to the viewer. She is holding some sort of stick. This reminds me of the English legend of lady Godiva. Here is a quote about that from https://harvardmagazine.com/2003/07/lady-godiva-the-naked-tr-html:


Staggering beneath the yoke of oppressive taxes, the medieval residents of Coventry, England, pleaded in vain for relief. Ironically, deliverance would come from the wife of the very lord who scorned their pleas. Lady Godiva repeatedly urged her husband, Leofric, to lessen the people's tax burden, and time and again he refused. Yet she persisted, and one day in exasperation he told her he would lower taxes when she rode a horse, naked, through the streets of the town at midday. When she took him at his word and set out on her famous ride, the highborn Lady Godiva became an instant heroine to the common people of Coventry.
A fascinating piece of history. But as it happens, most medieval scholars agree the ride never took place. Professor of English and American literature and language Daniel Donoghue examines the origins and cultural significance of the myth in Lady Godiva: A Literary History of the Legend (Blackwell), and offers insights into how that myth has evolved over the centuries. "The story," he notes, "was based on the life of Godifu, a real woman who lived in Coventry in the latter part of the eleventh century and was married to one of the most powerful men in England."
Contemporary historians did not consider Godifu particularly noteworthy; what little was written about her at the time mentioned her merely as the wife of a famous man. But Donoghue points out that "two centuries after her death, chroniclers in the Benedictine abbey of St. Albans inserted a fully developed narrative into their Latin histories" and the legend of Lady Godiva was born. "Nobody knows quite why the legend was invented and attached to her name," he says, "but it does seem to function as a kind of myth of origin for the town of Coventry. At the end, Count Leofric seals the agreement about taxes with his own seal." 
Photo from: Guerra, Amílcar (2017) EPIGRAFIA E IMAGEM NAS ESTELAS EPIGRAFADAS DO SUDOESTE. Acta Palaeohispanica XII, Palaeohispanica 17, pp. 95-113. I.S.S.N.: 1578-5386. Online at: https://www.academia.edu/40968681/EPIGRAFIA_E_IMAGEM_NAS_ESTELAS_EPIGRAFADAS_DO_SUDOESTE

(August 28, 2023, updated March 19, 2025)

Translation of Inner Text in Akkadian (Med Text 36.1)

(read 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 Iberian
  1. Mu  ReWu  KaLa.  Ḫu  U  Ṭu  Ma'u.  La  Nu  APu.  Ba'u  Nu  QaMu.  Ṣu  WA  Ḫu

In English

  1. Fertility-fluids are being shepherded by emotional-constraints. Hu and Thu are being pushed-away.  The lack is revealing the veil. The nest (life-network) is revealing the burning. Activity (motion powers) is fate-cursing Hu.

Translation of Outer Text (Line 2)

(August 19, 2023, updated March 18, 2025)

Translation of Outer Text in Akkadian (Med Text 36.2)

(read 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 Iberian
  1. 'Du  Ṭu  A  Di'u. E.  A  Šu  A  Ya'u  Du  Ne'u

In English

  1. Instigating Thu will result in the divine-motion-powers being ineffective.  That equality will result in Yahu manifesting emotional-affects.
Southwest Writing Museum, in Almodôvar, Portugal as it was in 2015. It was opened in 2008. Photo from: https://www.sulinformacao.pt/en/2015/05/estela-do-monte-novo-do-visconde-vai-ser-apresentada-ao-publico-em-almodovar/