Experts are still unsure about the language in stone tablets rarely found in Lake Bashplemi

Language is a development that makes life easier for all the oldest civilizations in the world. This ancient tool revolutionized this early civilization, Allows them to release records, history, and stories between far and from generation to generation.

Although many ancient languages ​​have been described by linguists, there are ancient languages ​​and writing systems that are not known today as in the past decade. In 2021, The discovery of the archeology It was made at Lake Bashplemi in Georgia in Eastern Europe, opening a new layer of linguistic history for experts to explore. The discovery, a 3,000 -year -old basalt tablet, has an unknown form of writing.

Tablet found in Lake Bashplemi & mysterious symbol

Archaeologists who focus on the Eastern Bronze Age of Europe and West Asia have a new discovery to reflect and learn. In the fall of 2021, local fishermen in Lake Bashplemi, Georgia, found Basalt tablets. Measuring 9.5 x 7 inches, tablets are made locally from native stone to the area. It dates between the last bronze and the early iron, around 1000 BC. In 2024, scientific paper by Ramaz Shengelia, Levan Gordeziani, Nikoloz Tushabramishvili, nodar poporadze, and other zourabichvili Bring this discovery to the light.

Although the tablet itself is interesting, what is true -the expert’s eye is its writing. Archaeologists immediately realized that the tablet featured strange signs in a script that had never been seen before. Organized in seven lines, 60 different symbols are marked on the tablet. These include curves, spirals, straight lines, and points. Some symbols repeat throughout different sections of the text, but out of 60 symbols, 39 are unique.

The text seems to be horizontal, but the direction of the script is now unclear to the linguists, though some submit the hypothesis that it can be boustrophedon (where the text is written from left to right and then right to the left line with the SNAK line). To make the writing, the cone drill carved the symbols and smoothed it. Basalt is difficult to engrave, so craftsmen must be very talented and good at their work!

Does the expert have the idea of ​​what inscription language is? What can he say?

Currently, the text of the Bashplemi tablet is not lowered. It is the only tablet of its kind that has been found, which means that decomposition will be very difficult. The ancient Greek sources, which called the world “Colchis” and “Iberia,”, mentioned objects that wrote to them, showing that the part of the ancient world had its own writing system.

For example, Eustathius of Thessalonica insists that Colchian Golden Fleece of the Argonaut myth has a form of writing on it. Although ancient Greek legends implied “Colchis script,” archaeological excavations have not known it so far. Apparently, most of the writing in this area in ancient times occurred in biodegradable material and has not survived to this day.

Going further, the linguists do not know for sure which language Bashplemi tablets are written. Although many believe that it is meant to interpret a proto-kartvelian language, this is still a hypothesis. Despite all this, archaeologists have seen the similarities between local medieval scripts and this one. For example, Asomtavruli / mrgvlovani, Nuskhuri, and Mkhedruli The script, which is all the date after the 5th century CE, seems to contain some similarities with bashplemi inscriptions.

In addition, there are similarities with Brahmi, ancient Greece, Aramaic, Phoenician, and Iberian scripts (as in Iberia, ancient territories that are now Georgia, not Iberia as in the Iberian Peninsula). For information that the tablet tries to back up, it is guessing. Scholars have suggested that it can be a list of such items or inventories. In the Bronze Mediterranean, tablets often record inventories for temples, governments, or businesses, such as today’s receipts.

Will this script be declared in the near future?

Although the breakthrough of linguistics and archeology occurs regularly thanks to the hard work of the scientific community, we may wait a while to key the answer to the Bashplemi mysterious text. It may be decades before the tablet language can be found, if it can be found at all.

Many better ancient languages, such as the Minoan writing system, have not yet explored (the main example is Phaistos disc, a mysterious bronze -old Greek object with two -sided writing).

Without a larger writing corpus to refer to, it is impossible for language. Further work and archaeological expeditions are needed at Lake Bashplemi to reveal the other secrets of the lake.