Chapter 649

"Mr. Edwin, you can watch as long as you want. It's just an opening dish. We have something better, if you're interested."

In the bright office, George Edwin, sitting behind his desk, saw this piece of pottery and his heart leaped.

There are many differences between fakes and genuine ones. For a man like him who has been engaged in the trade of 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 one.

However, Edwin was still on the surface. His gloved hands took the big fragment from the dealer, and he could see the excitement of the three dealers.

They were three local men who were approached by Paul Smith, the middleman, who was watching. Both of them knew that most of the peddlers were novices. They never knew where to get some treasures. They were eager to sell money to realize their money. This usually has a good price for both parties.

"Let me see." Edwin took the fragment carefully in one hand, the magnifying glass in the other, and began to identify it.

They don't ask how things come from. It's none of their business. 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 at auction houses in Britain and Citigroup, and then sell them at a high price.

To determine the authenticity of the cultural relics in his hands is the only thing that Edwin cares about.

As soon as he took the fragment, he could see a line of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs on the fragment, which was in the form of holy script.

Alderman's forehead wrinkles, and I feel a little strange in my heart

"How about it?" Asked bisher, a dealer, a little nervously.

Paul Smith was also watching and had some knowledge of the script. "The king, the sun god, the inscriptions are well preserved, so we don't know whether it is true or not."

"It's true, of course." When he said this, Ella was even more anxious: "I tell you, we have a few pieces just like this." Eldin noticed the contemplation on Edwin's old face and asked, "what does the picture above mean?"

"It literally means King + rebel with crown and staff, sun god + rebel."

Edwin looked at the four words with a magnifying glass, "the rebels are in the back, and there is no name or Royal Circle, so it should mean that this is the rebel, the anti king, the anti Sun God. This fragment is likely to have been unearthed in the tomb of the traitor. "

Bashir, Ella and eldin looked at each other all of a sudden. It was not the royal family.

If so, it seems to explain why there are no tombs, not even coffins

But Bashir sounded like a way to lower the price: "Mr. Edwin, I don't care if I'm a rebel or not. This is an Egyptian relic."

"I didn't say it wasn't." The quality of this piece of pottery is very high, and the texture is clear. Moreover, the holy script is one of the earliest typefaces used in ancient Egypt. If it focuses on ideographic writing, this fragment can even be traced back to 3000 BC.

Later, the style of holy script gradually evolved to retain only its phonetic function, a bit like the English alphabet.

The earliest style of holy calligraphy focused on the expression of form and meaning. It was very picturesque. We could understand its meaning by looking at the pictures.

But with such a fragment and four characters, Alderman can't tell which period it is and what it means

And the meaning is very important. Only when more and more complete texts are put together can we judge whether it is the Scripture, the inscription or what it is, whether it is a record, a blessing or a curse, and what nature the fragment comes from.

"Did you bring any other pieces?" Edwin looked up and asked, "I need to figure out the type of debris before I can give a valuation."

Several people in Bashir hesitated. Paul Smith also said, "take it all out. Different things have different values."

"Mr. Edwin, you'd better explain your opinion to us." 'said Bashir, waving to Ella to take something out of her backpack. Ella, staring at Edwin's old face, took out the remaining three pieces and put them on the table.

"Light up!" Seeing the other party's rude actions, Edwin could not help but cry out that these are genuine artifacts, and that cultural relics that have existed for thousands of years are very fragile.

"Mr. Edwin, it seems that you are quite satisfied with our goods." Eldin saw the tension.

Ella and Bashir immediately laughed knowingly. Edwin did not respond, and began to try to splice the four pieces together.

These are indeed fragments of the same pottery. The broken shapes can be made into a piece, like a bowl shaped container. The words are engraved on the surface of the bowl in the middle of the container. All of them are very clear, and the years can't erode their lines.

Edwin frowned and looked at the holy script on the four fragments. He didn't know why. The more he looked at it, the more his heart felt an unspeakable surge

There are no punctuation marks in ancient Egyptian language, but sometimes different expressions can be written in separate lines and different sizes.Four pieces, four sentences.

From left to right, the first sentence [????????????]

the second sentence [????????]

the third sentence [????????????????????????????]

the fourth sentence [????????????]

"the first sentence is the rebel of the king and the sun god."

As Edwin thought, he explained softly to the others, "the second sentence is stone and abscess - disease Stone disease, abscess caused by stone, disease caused by stone, which may be the cause of death of the dead The third sentence, bird catcher + abscess of anatomy -- on behalf of medicine + birds + a flock of birds + death, a trap for birds? Kill birds with medicine Fourth, God of ram head + new world + new life + power... "

It was stone disease and bird killer, and Bashir scratched his head. "What does that mean?"

Not to mention these three peddlers, Paul Smith also can not understand. In fact, modern people have limited understanding of ancient Egyptian language, not only still do not understand the meaning of many words, but also rely on guesswork to express the words they connect together.

"Stone disease..." Edwin looked at the pieces and was not sure it was the rebel's death? Or the rebel way of rebellion?

Who made this inscription? By the king? Or the rebels?

This directly determines the meaning of the sentence, especially the third sentence, the fourth sentence

"It seems at that time." Edwin said, feeling more and more disorganized. "There is a rebellion against the kingdom of the sun god, which is related to a disease Mr. Bashir, I want all the pieces. What else do you have? "

"Ha ha, that's a lot, but it's much more expensive than these pieces." "You don't have to buy it," she said

As Edwin spoke, he looked thoughtfully at the old words on the four fragments:

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