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Salkunh

[SOLVED] #219 Black - The Master of Secrets

**Posted:** Fri Apr 29, 2005 9:07 am

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Ford: You sure it'll do enough damage?
McKay: Ever see a 20-kiloton nuclear explosion?
Sheppard: I have.
(Everyone looks at him.)
Sheppard: Not up close.

Muffin

Nice one!

Picked that one up, thought 'bugger that looks hard', then tried the red 'easy' one.

**Posted:** Fri Apr 29, 2005 9:09 am

Salkunh

I picked the glyphs one up and went "damn them" and then thought hell i can combine arg and revision Smile

**Posted:** Fri Apr 29, 2005 9:13 am

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Ford: You sure it'll do enough damage?
McKay: Ever see a 20-kiloton nuclear explosion?
Sheppard: I have.
(Everyone looks at him.)
Sheppard: Not up close.

yanka

The card itself:

**Posted:** Fri Apr 29, 2005 9:16 am

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Salkunh

specially for connor in IRC....

ink imAh nsw
ink mrrw n it=i
iw Sdy=i r mSdt kA
iw sS n=i aSAt Hr
sS iswt nt kmt
iw sw(A)D n=i r n kmt
iw srd.n=i hAw
Hna nht
ink sS ikr n Dba=f
ink kAry wAD n Dba=f
ptr rn=i

thats the transliteration for the glyphs (the bit to get to the translation)

I've translated it as:

I am the King's backbone (literally: spinal cord)
I am the love of my Father
I suckle the ford bull
*
The scribes of the old times of Egypt hand over to the mouth of Egypt
I made the plants grow together with the sycamore
I am the trustworthy scribe of his fingers
I am the great green gardener of his finger
Who/What is my name?

the * relates to a line I have in transliteration and in a dodgy english translation. What I have is "the multitude of scribes to me"

never the less i get the solution as The River Nile as it would be all these things. Though when I am in uni next week I can always check it in the library with Urk IV.

**Posted:** Fri Apr 29, 2005 9:37 am

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Ford: You sure it'll do enough damage?
McKay: Ever see a 20-kiloton nuclear explosion?
Sheppard: I have.
(Everyone looks at him.)
Sheppard: Not up close.

smile

Awesome. well done! Smile

**Posted:** Fri Apr 29, 2005 9:58 am

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James Lyon · Veteran Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 92 Location: Edinburgh

Salkunh: is there any way to translate those hieroglyphics without learning the language? I assume you're a student in that field, but what about the rest of us? Is there a place to find the answer? (And don't say the Rosetta Stone Smile

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**Posted:** Sat Apr 30, 2005 12:53 pm

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Salkunh

Not really. You would have to be studying it because it is a full text with full verb forms and non-translatable parts like iw. It's also from a pretty obscure set of texts which iirc have never been published in English, though I could be wrong about that as I have never actually studied any of those texts.

Short of reading the How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs book by Mark Collier (random plug for lecturer), Gardiners Grammar and studying it for a while would you really be able to do it. Especially as there is no decent dictionary online or place to search the texts by glyphic symbol Rolling Eyes

**Posted:** Sat Apr 30, 2005 8:08 pm

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Ford: You sure it'll do enough damage?
McKay: Ever see a 20-kiloton nuclear explosion?
Sheppard: I have.
(Everyone looks at him.)
Sheppard: Not up close.

Nik_Doof

in short i think she means: "no" Very Happy

**Posted:** Sat Apr 30, 2005 8:10 pm

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Salkunh

**Posted:** Sat Apr 30, 2005 8:26 pm

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Ford: You sure it'll do enough damage?
McKay: Ever see a 20-kiloton nuclear explosion?
Sheppard: I have.
(Everyone looks at him.)
Sheppard: Not up close.

Xanatos · Boot Joined: 29 Apr 2005 Posts: 13 Location: London, UK

The day before I got my package I saw someone on the Jubilee line translating what looked like those glyphs, was it anyone here? I only remembered it when my GF pointed it out after seeing this card.

**Posted:** Sat Apr 30, 2005 8:47 pm

James Lyon · Veteran Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 92 Location: Edinburgh

**Posted:** Sat Apr 30, 2005 8:48 pm

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JamesDart

If the black ones are this hard imagine what the silver ones will be like...

**Posted:** Sun May 01, 2005 1:12 am

Seeker

**Posted:** Sun May 01, 2005 4:15 am

Nik_Doof

**Posted:** Sun May 01, 2005 7:30 am

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