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# The secret of the LORD is for those who fear Him, And He will make them know His Covenant" (Psalm 25:14).
Contents:
1. Interesting Quote. Welsh Biblical Names in OLD Welsh Census Returns.
2. Semitic Attributes of Welsh, Scottish, and Irish Languages.
3. Bronze Age long-distance connections: Baltic amber in Assur (Ancient Assyria).
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1. Interesting Quote. Welsh Biblical Names in OLD Welsh Census Returns.
WELSH CENSUS RETURNS 1851-1891
https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/uk/walescen.htm
Surname Index Census Returns
because of its religious and ethnic background, the 'native' Welsh population often have biblical surnames. Indeed, some place names in Wales are biblical.
Biblical names were so well respected by the population at large that there were cases of Jews changing their surnames to Isaac or Jacob because it was good for business.
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2. Semitic Attributes of Welsh, Scottish, and Irish Languages.
Dear Sir/Madam,
I wonder could the attached satellite landscape images/ natural features, from Britain and Ireland, be related to the "Isles of the Sea", which Isaiah mentions several times alongside "islands" and "To prepare a carved image that will not topple over".
Did you know that Welsh and Scottish & Irish Gaelic languages all start the sentence with a verb - like North African and Semitic languages - and unlike all other Proto- Indo- European languages.
The linguists Prof Venneman and Prof Eska, disagree strongly over what caused this linguistic fact.
Kind Regards,
Lorcan
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3. Bronze Age long-distance connections: Baltic amber in Assur (Ancient Assyria)
by Oliver Dietrich, Landesmuseum fur Vorgeschichte
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-bronze-age-long-distance-baltic-amber.html
Extracts:
In 1914, two beads were found under the great ziggurat of Assur in Iraq, in a foundation deposit dating from around 1800-1750 BC. Their material has now been identified as amber using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR). The beads represent some of the earliest amber specimens in southwest Asia and also some of the most distant discoveries from the find areas in the Baltic region.
Assur (now Qala'at Sherqat), on the west bank of the Tigris in Iraq, is one of the most important archaeological sites in northern Mesopotamia. The beginnings of the settlement go back to the 3rd millennium BC. Starting from the late 19th century BC the city became the center of an Assyrian territorial state.
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.. they uncovered several thousand beads of shell, stone, glass and pottery lying directly on the bedrock beneath the first layer of mudbricks. On the basis of find-sharing agreements, parts of the find ended up in the collection of the Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin.
Among the beads were two disk-shaped ones whose material differed from the rest. They have now been re-examined by researchers from the State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt, the Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
.... Despite severe weathering, the spectra broadly matched those of Baltic amber (succinite), suggesting that the amber beneath the great ziggurat of Assur most likely originated in the Baltic or North Sea region. They belong to the period around 1800 BC or the first half of the 18th century BC.
The beads thus represent one of the earliest examples of amber in southwest Asia and also one of the most remote from the source areas in the Baltic region.
The extreme rarity of amber in the Mediterranean and the Near East before about 1550 BC and the restriction to high-ranking contexts can be explained by the fact that the Central German Unetice culture, whose wealth and importance is expressed, for example, in richly furnished princely tombs (Leubingen, Helmsdorf, Bornhock) and the Nebra Sky Disk, controlled the paths over which the amber could reach the south.
The extremely rare amber finds from the early 2nd millennium BC are probably exclusive gifts from well-traveled people from Central or Western Europe to the elites in the south. After the end of the Unetice culture around 1550 BC., the picture changes and widespread trade is established, which made amber available in larger quantities in the Mediterranean and the Middle East.
The paper is published in the journal Acta Archaeologica.