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**Posted:** Thu Mar 26, 2009 5:24 pm

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jorgeguberte · Veteran Joined: 21 May 2008 Posts: 128 Location: Brazil

I'm just a ~~player~~ ~~investigator~~ slice.
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**Posted:** Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:10 pm

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MistyBlue · Boot Joined: 18 Mar 2009 Posts: 12

Dont you just wish sometimes your employer would give time off to keep up with games? I havent been abel to keep up, lots of new posts on the PIE forums about the wierd writing on the shpping backs. Has anyone figured it out yet? I dont think I saw anyone say they salved it?

**Posted:** Fri Mar 27, 2009 5:40 pm

DLT · Guest

Nope, we certainly haven't solved the cuneiform writings. Closest we've got is trying to decide if they represent numbers or letters (well, sounds more specifically.)

If its numbers, I think they read (from left to right) 62, 10, 4. The reason I think its 62 is because the only logical reason I can yet deduce for the large triangle is to make it clear it is in the next "column."
Cuneiform used a base-60 system, the same way decimal is base-10, 62 would be written with a single marking in the "60" column and two markings in the "1" column.

See: http://it.stlawu.edu/~dmelvill/mesomath/Numbers.html for point of reference in checking the numbers.

The more unlikely alternative is, if they represent syllables/sounds, that they read from left to right, "a" "u" and "za." Those could be individual words or a phonetic spelling of a single word, or so many different things it is almost impossible to figure out.

See: http://www.ancientscripts.com/akkadian.html for point of reference in figuring out what symbols represent what sounds. Warning: can cause headaches and confusion. Razz

Hector's latest blog (03.29.09) shed's a little more insight into what the writer might've intended with the symbols.

**Posted:** Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:39 pm

jinx1499

OH! DLT !! you beat me to the ancient scripts site. i was just about to post it. nicely done! if you really are a guest, i hope you sign up, we can certainly use the help! well here's another thing i found that may help...but probably not. Very Happy

http://www.sumerian.org/tcd-proj.htm

it's a cuniform dictionary program i found.
i don't know if anyone wants to give it a shot, but my brain hurt after trying to play with it.

has anyone figured out how the wiki sites from hec's journal entries play in yet?

**Posted:** Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:22 am

jorgeguberte · Veteran Joined: 21 May 2008 Posts: 128 Location: Brazil

On the website that jinx1499 posted there's the name of the owner, at the bottom...maybe we could ask him to translate the cuneiform for us. Maybe not.

**Posted:** Mon Mar 30, 2009 6:04 am

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DLT · Guest

I've downloaded and installed that Cuneiform Dictionary program, but sadly, "interpretations and meanings aren't available in the trial version", so, unless someone wants to buy it, its useless.

And yeah, I'm a guest 'cause I only come here to post in this thread, seems kinda pointless to make an entire account on this site for that. Razz

If you want me, I'm over on the official PIE forums, same name.

**Posted:** Mon Mar 30, 2009 10:46 am

Oriza

Has anyone got a good screencap of the cuneiform that Baron and Hector found on their house? We could send it to jah7SPLATpacbell.net and see if he can translate them. I'd do it myself but I can't get on youtube at school.

Edit: Got a response back from Baron regarding John Vigilante:

**Posted:** Mon Mar 30, 2009 11:15 am

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DLT · Guest

Here, I threw together a quick montage of the best shots I could get of each image/them together from the YT video. Feel free to include the link to someone if you're emailing them about a translation.

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/1741/cuneiformpiesigns.jpg

(Quite big image, so wouldn't recommend saving it/attaching it to an email.)

**Posted:** Mon Mar 30, 2009 3:24 pm

DLT · Decorated Joined: 30 Mar 2009 Posts: 239

Hey, you guys should check out pietheory.com, there's been a lot of updates!

**Posted:** Fri Apr 03, 2009 5:10 pm

Lysithea

There is now a PIE Theory screensaver to be had. It includes instructions on how to modify it with the javafx/NetBeans package in the recruit kit.

**Posted:** Sat Apr 04, 2009 6:08 am

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lil'e · Boot Joined: 11 Nov 2008 Posts: 13 Location: California

Anyone on this game know Java?

**Posted:** Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:34 am

sakai23

any one got a clue out of the package of things to use which one is for clue #1?
I'd like to have a go at this...

**Posted:** Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:43 pm

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lil'e · Boot Joined: 11 Nov 2008 Posts: 13 Location: California

Clue 1 starting point

**Posted:** Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:47 pm

Lysithea

Re: Clue 1 starting point

**Posted:** Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:57 pm

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