Berlin professor can decipher 1800-year-old inscription on ivory knife grip

Von NAG Redaktion

Titel: Berliner Professor entziffert 1800 Jahre alte Inschrift auf Messergriff aus Elfenbein Ein außergewöhnliches Artefakt aus der Vergangenheit: Ein Messergriff aus Elfenbein, der etwa 1800 Jahre alt ist, enthält keine zufälligen Kerben und Striche, sondern einen vollständigen Satz. Und es gibt tatsächlich einen Berliner Professor, der diese Inschrift lesen kann! Der 76-jährige Professor Harry Falk von der Freien Universität Berlin, Experte für Indologie und Religionswissenschaften, hat die eingeritzte Schrift auf dem Messergriff als Khar-Schrift identifiziert. Diese alte indische Schrift gilt in der Wissenschaft als Variante der Kharosthi-Schrift. Laut Falk steht auf dem Messergriff der Satz „Ehre verleihende Gabe für Herrn …
Title: Berlin professor deciphered 1800 -year -old inscription on knife handle made of ivory an extraordinary artifact from the past: a knife handle made of ivory, which is about 1800 years old, does not contain random notches and lines, but a complete sentence. And there is actually a Berlin professor who can read this inscription! The 76-year-old Professor Harry Falk from the Free University of Berlin, an expert in Indology and Religious Sciences, identified the scratched script on the knife handle as a KHAR script. This old Indian script is considered a variant of the Kharosthi script in science. According to Falk, the sentence "Honorary Give for Mr. ... (Symbolbild/MB)

Title: Berlin professor deciphered 1800 -year -old inscription on knife handle made of ivory

An extraordinary artifact from the past: A knife handle made of ivory that is about 1800 years old contains no random notches and lines, but a complete sentence. And there is actually a Berlin professor who can read this inscription!

The 76-year-old Professor Harry Falk from the Free University of Berlin, an expert in Indology and Religious Sciences, identified the scratched script on the knife handle as a KHAR script. This old Indian script is considered a variant of the Kharosthi script in science.

According to Falk, the sentence "Honoring Give for Mr. Tadara" is on the knife handle. This meaningful inscription was discovered on the seven centimeter long ivory handle, which was found in Wels, Austria as early as 1918. Only now could it be determined which region the artifact comes from.

The museum director Renate Miglbauer explains that the artefact from the Oasis Niya on Seidenstrasse in the Taklamakan desert comes. This region is now part of the Uiguren region Xinjiang in northwestern China.

An interesting coincidence is that a Düsseldorf archaeologist discovered the knife grip during a museum visit in Austria and recognized the special feature of the historical object. Apparently, the artifact has covered a distance of around 6000 kilometers in the bag of a traveler during the Roman period. It is therefore the westernmost find from this region of Asia and this era.

The historians suspect that the owner of the knife, possibly Mr. Tadara, brought it to the area of ​​today's Austria during a trip over the Silk Road. At that time, the Austrian city of Wels under the name Ovilava was an important trade center.

The deciphering of the inscription on the ivory knife grip made of ivory is a significant contribution to researching the history and language of this region. With his expertise, Professor Harry Falk made a valuable contribution to science and contributed to the clarification of a centuries -old question.

Topics: Archeology, Berlin Culture, Free University of Berlin, Language, Science.