19 January 2010 > Articles - Critical
On two Pre-Roman inscriptions from the river basin of Idrijca (Western Slovenia)
Presented is a different approach to deciphering of the inscription from Grad near Reka and from another site in Posočje (Soča River basin), Slovenia. The last signs in the former inscription indicate the imperfect or imperative form of a verb. In the latter, the distribution of punctuation signs indicates i.a. the word separation. The former inscription can be interpreted as "Bows (and females) the grandsire processed handily" or "Grandsire, process bows (and females) handily!". The latter one as "This my (father??) ..." or "Here my (father??) ..."
27 December 2009 > Articles - Columns
Dotaknil se bom kulture dialoga v stroki in zastopstva njenih predstavnikov zunaj meja strokovne javnosti. Gre za dobro znane odzive na kritične poglede ali celo na napak razumljene spodbudne besede, kateri kaj dosti od naslova te kolumne niti ne odstopajo. Dostikrat se vnemajo burne razprave, mnenja se ne le krešejo ampak že kar gorijo, včasih vse dokler strasti ne pomiri minevanje časa. Ali je to zares potrebno? Kakšni so vzroki in dejavniki, ki vodijo v takšno nerazsodnost? Zakaj se v takšna prerekanja tako radi vživijo razumniki, oz. tisti, ki naj bi razumnost predstavljali? Odgovori niso daleč, a najprej poglejmo vzorec, ki je zelo prisoten v naši strokovni javnosti in katerega bi bilo nujno čimprej spremeniti.
The inscriptions are to be seen on the stringers above the tomb entrances at Orvieto necropolis, Italy. These were created by the Etruscan (better said "Venetic") graphemes - most likely in the 6th Century BC. The archaic town of Orvieto, previously called Urbs Vetus (Old Town), decorated the surface of the rock plateau like an open face sandwich. The cliff below the elevated "table land" had been perforated like a piece of Swiss Cheese by the ancient residents and so there are, in fact, two towns. Both of these we find half way between Florence and Rome at the convergence of the Rivers Chiani and Tevere. There was a ring of burials, reputedly below the cliffs around the city, of these sites two survive - Crocifisso del Tufo and Cannicella. 
In 1885 two French archeologists Cousine and Dürrbach, members of scientific society École de France, were searching classical relicts on the island Lemnos in the Aegean Sea. Near the village Kaminia, they succeeded to find a stony stele (memorial) with authentic inscriptions probably from 6th century BC.