Comments on: Mysterious Code on an Ancient Cup

By: lannaxe96

lannaxe96 — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:41:04 +0000

I don’t trust the opinions honestly, and to tell you the truth, if this vessel was found dating back to the era that NG says it did, I think it’s a joke.

When it pertains to Biblical Archaeology, and you’re taking about people during that time that were master craftsman, this vessel doesn’t fly. It looks like some kid took a knife and carved some cheap wood.

It’s sloppy really. I want documented proof!

By: Puzzled Monkey

Puzzled Monkey — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:20:59 +0000

It’s really hard to read because of the shallow surface scratches, but it appears to actually use the letters of ancient hebrew/phoenician script, rather than the aramaic letters that replaced them during the first exile.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Hebrew_alphabet#Ancestral_ scripts_and_script_variants

The old “aleph-bet” was not commonly known but would have been recognized by the well-educated religious scholars or priests of the time. Use of those letters connoted something similar to the use of gothic script in bibles today … it’s an evocation of the authority of tradition, and would have had the additional advantage of obscuring the meaning somewhat from casual eyes. So I wouldn’t call it a code, exactly, but more of a filter.

This sort of layered complexity was typical of sects such as the Essenes. In the Dead Sea scrolls they wrote the tetragrammaton YHVH in the old script.

By: A

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:25:18 +0000

It probably is the holy grail, and it probably says “NOTHING IS FINER THAN FISHIN’ AT THE CRACK OF DAWN” cos Jesus obviously was a redneck from the south.. at least what I gather from the pics I’ve seen.

By: Christophe

Christophe — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:39:01 +0000

it says : “My son went to Nineveh and all I got was this lousy cup”

By: Berick Cook

Berick Cook — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:24:07 +0000

timgg wins the comment of the day XD

By: timgg

timgg — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:37:06 +0000

Based on the photo, it looks like the code is:
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By: Jim Coen

Jim Coen — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:45:29 +0000

I agree with “World’s Greatest Dad”… but would that make it the Holy Grail?

By: Lady Helena Handbasket

Lady Helena Handbasket — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:16:48 +0000

When they finally decode it will probably say “World’s greatest dad”