can someone translate this paper please!

Discussion in 'Ephemera and Photographs' started by winas, May 24, 2023.

  1. winas

    winas Member

    A family has this paper and he wanted to know what it is exactly with translation.
    I really appreciate any help you can provide.
     

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  2. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    Please tell us anything you already know about the paper's origin. What is the country where it is now located? Based on family history, is there another country where it might have been written?

    Is it possible the paper goes this way up?

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    The character set is quite limited & each of the 6 lines has 8 characters. Could these be numbers from a country where letters are used for numbers? Most of the characters could have come from the Hebrew alphabet, but the deltas & chis look like Greek. (Both use alphabetic numbers.) Kabbalah?
     
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  3. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Yes, it does. I tweaked it a little to try and make it more legible.

    IMG-20230523-WA0004.jpg
     
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  4. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Greek and Hebrew is not Kabbalah, that would be Hebrew only, but it does look esoteric.
     
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  5. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    It looks Greek to me, although my Koine Greek is more than rusty. Are you sure there is any Hebrew?
    @Ownedbybear , are you up to giving a translation a go?
     
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  6. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    I don't know if there is Hebrew, but there are characters that look like gamma, & there are characters, many of them, that look like the mirror image of gamma. In the bit of Greek I know, there is no letter that is roughly the shape of 7, but Hebrew has several.
     
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  7. winas

    winas Member

    is there any news?
     
  8. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    it's only been 7 hours....
    we have members worldwide who don't show up every day...
    Patience ..
     
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  9. Figtree3

    Figtree3 What would you do if you weren't afraid?

    Did you notice these questions written above?

    <Please tell us anything you already know about the paper's origin. What is the country where it is now located? Based on family history, is there another country where it might have been written?>

    Your replies may help somebody to figure out the answer.

    It appears that the paper is semi-transparent. Is this true?
     
  10. JewelryPicker

    JewelryPicker Well-Known Member

    Google translate is utterly confused about the entire thing :cool:
     
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  11. Paul W

    Paul W Active Member

    Looks like Coptic to me.
     
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  12. all_fakes

    all_fakes Well-Known Member

    The fact that each line is the same length suggests to me that it might be in code; which also raises the possibility that it might not be any particular language, but a character set invented for that code - or worse yet, just a fantasy item. Could be based on Tolkien's runic alphabet, or almost anything.
    As Fig and Bronwen mentioned, some info about origin, current location, and history would be helpful; otherwise I might be inclined to guess that it could be just a fantasy, created by a child or teenager for some role-playing game.
     
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