The Hand of Irulegi

University of Chicago professor, Sofía Torallas Tovar travels to Madrid to explore the Hand of the Irulegi, unearthed in 2021 at the archaeological site of the Irulegi, south of modern Pamplona. The bronze artifact, shaped like a hand, features four lines of text that may shed new light on the ancient Basque language and people. Join Sofía for a conversation with Eugenio R. Lujan, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, as they discuss this fascinating text.

[lennutrajektoor]

The table at @6:41 is fundamentally wrong. The kiri or kirjad (plural) are words. For instance kugu (ku-gu) is a specific word which later ends up in Estonian as kogu (the whole) but the kirjad assigned to it completely represents the different words. These specific kirjad is used in Estonian kirjad and they can be translated.

[mrdbmckenna]

How can you tell it's a right hand?

[lennutrajektoor]

Are there published papers on the Hand of Irulegi? The take at @10:10 is faulty because they read from right to left and never like in modern times. The modern direction of reading is much much later addition. And again each kiri, or cuneiform if you like, is a word, not a sound. Beside I've never seen sentence separation as dot. What I see on the original it's separated what we nowadays call colon. Introduction of "colon" was among many major written language reforms.

[korkutozarcan]

You guys must study Proto Turkish and specifically Göktürk alphabet to deciphere . That would change your world surely.

[lennutrajektoor]

You have all the specimens upside down. The right way to read them, let say Ullastret, is turn it 180 degree. The longer end has to be horizontal. And each kiri is a word, not a sound.

[JJONNYREPP]

The Hand of Irulegi 2114pm 11.1.24 the basques? infotainment by bubo and friends... ahhhh.... they told me that ancient Spanish languages were akin to turkish and the like...