Chapter 646: Pottery fragments

"Mr. Edwin, you can watch as long as you want. It's just an opening dish. We have something better, if you are interested."
In the bright office, George Edwin, who was sitting behind his desk, saw the piece of pottery, and his heart jumped.
There are many differences between counterfeit and genuine products. For someone like him who has been dealing in Egyptian cultural relics for more than 30 years, many details can be seen at a glance.
Now experience tells him that this is a genuine product.
However, Edward's face was quiet, and his gloved hands took the big slap from the dealer and saw the excitement of the three dealers.
The other party was three local men, and he was approached by the middleman Paul Smith, who was watching right now. Both of them knew that these gangs were mostly newbies, and they never knew where they got some babies. They were anxious to sell their money to make money. This usually has a good price for both parties.
"Let's see." Edward took the fragment carefully in one hand, and the magnifying glass in the other, and began to identify it.
They don't ask how things come, it doesn't matter to them, they only care about the authenticity of things.
As long as it is true and bought at a good price, these things can naturally appear in the auction houses of England and Citigroup, and then sell for a high price.
Determining the authenticity of Chinese characters is the only thing Edwin cares about.
Once I took this fragment, Edwin hadn't read it carefully, and I could already see a line of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs on the fragment, which is the holy book style.
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Edwin's head was wrinkled, and his heart felt a little strange ...
"How is it?" Asked the cultural dealer Bashir nervously.
Paul Smith also looked at the side, and also had some knowledge of the holy book style, "King, Sun God, the inscriptions are well preserved, and I do n’t know the true and false."
"Of course it's true." Basherton said so, and Ella said anxiously: "Tell you, we still have a few pieces of this fragment." Erding noticed Edwin's old face. 'S contemplation and asked: "What does the picture above mean?"
"Literally means the king in the crown and the staff holding the staff + the rebel, the sun + the rebel."
Edwin looked closely at the four words with a magnifying glass, "The rebel is behind, and there is no name and king circle, so the meaning should be that this is the rebel at the time, anti-king, anti-sun god. This fragment is very It may have been unearthed in the tomb of the rebel. "
Bashir, Ella, and Erding suddenly looked at each other.
If so, it seems to explain why there is no tomb and no coffin ...
But Bashir sounded like a price-cutting method, and said loudly: "Mr. Edwin, whether I am a rebel or not, this is an Egyptian artifact."
"I didn't say it wasn't." Edwin whispered, but he was gradually fascinated. The quality of this piece of pottery is very high, the texture is clear, and the holy script is the first type of font used in ancient Egypt. Focusing on the ideological holy book style, this fragment can even be traced back to 3000 BC.
The holy script gradually evolved to retain only its phonetic function, a bit like the English alphabet.
The earliest holy book style focused on the form and meaning, and the picture is very strong. By looking at the picture, you can understand its meaning.
But with just such a fragment and four words, Edwin can't tell what period of holy book style this is, and what does it mean ...
And the meaning is very important. Only when more and more complete texts are put together can we judge whether it is a scripture, an inscription or something, a record, a blessing or a mantra, and what kind of thing this fragment comes from.
"Have you brought any other fragments?" Edwin raised his head and asked, "I need to figure out the type of these fragments before I can give an estimate."
A few people in Bashir hesitated, and Paul Smith said: "Come out, different things have different values."
"Mr. Edwin, you better explain your opinion to us." Bashir said, waving his hand to let Ella take things out of her backpack. Ella stared at Edvin's old face while taking it out. Put the remaining three pieces on the table.
"Be gentle!" Edwin shouted when he saw the opponent's rude actions. He was inclined to believe that these were genuine products, and the cultural relics that had existed for thousands of years were very fragile.
"Mr. Edwin, it seems that you are quite satisfied with our goods." Erding saw the other's tightness.
Ella and Bashir laughed immediately after hearing the words. Edwin did not respond, and had already begun to try to stitch the four fragments.
These are indeed fragments of the same pottery. The broken shape can be put together, like a bowl-shaped container. The text is engraved on the middle bowl surface of the container. They are all very clear, and the lines cannot be eroded by the years.
Edwin frowned at the holy script on the four fragments. I do n’t know why. The more I read it, the more unspeakable it felt in my heart ...
There is no punctuation in the ancient Egyptian language, but sometimes the different expressions are written in separate lines, and there are different sizes.
Four fragments, spelled out four sentences.
From left to right, the first sentence [????????]
The second sentence [????]
The third sentence [??????????]
Fourth sentence 【????????】
"The first sentence, the rebel of the king, the rebel of the sun god."
While thinking, Edwin whispered to others, "The second sentence, stone + pustule-that is, disease ... stone disease, pustule caused by stone, disease caused by stone, this may be the cause of death of the dead ... Three sentences, bird catcher + anatomical pustule-represents medicine + bird + a group of birds + death, a trap for birds? Kill the bird with medicine ... The fourth sentence, the of the ram head + new world + new life + Power ... "
Stone disease and bird killing again, Bashir straightened his head, "What does that mean?"
Not to mention these three peddlers, Paul Smith does n’t understand ~ EbookFREE.me ~ In fact, modern people have limited cracking on the ancient Egyptian language. Not only do they still do n’t understand the meaning of many words, but to express them in series Many of the words are based on guesswork.
"Stone disease ..." Edwin looked at the fragments, not sure if this was the cause of the rebel's death? Or the rebel way of the rebels?
Who inscribed this inscription? The man by the king? Or was it from the rebels?
This directly determines the meaning, especially the third sentence, the fourth sentence ...
"It seems in that era." Edwin said, feeling more and more messy in his heart, "A rebellion against the kingdom of the Sun God has occurred, which is related to a disease ... Mr. Bashir, I have all these fragments, What else do you guys have? "
"Haha, that's a lot, but it's much more expensive than these fragments." Bashir was overjoyed, and Ella also said: "You don't have to buy it."
While Edward was speaking, he was still thinking about the ancient text on the four fragments:
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