Epigraphic Synopsis: Albanian and the Illyrian-Pelasgian Thesis

By B.D.Doka

Academic Bajram Doka, inspired by well-known researchers such as Johann Georg von Hahn, Charles Berlitz, and Eqrem Cabej, based on his deep analysis of linguistic science, by means of comparison, refers to the Albanian-Illyrian language and provides important assessment that "the Illyrians, Thraks, and Phrygians speak the same tongue and belong to the same linguistic trunk."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Nov 29, 2022
• ISBN: 9781662480584

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Epigraphic Synopsis

Albanian and the Illyrian-Pelasgian Thesis

B.D.Doka

Copyright © 2022 B.D.Doka

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ISBN 978-1-6624-8055-3 (pbk)

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Printed in the United States of America

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Albanology and Epigraphy

Albanians and the Illyrian-Pelasgian

Bibliography

Europe and the Albano: Illyrian Culture

Bibliography

Illyrica Antiqua 2

(International Conference in honour of D. Rendic Miočević. Sibenik, 12–15 September 2013)

Illyrian Languages in Albanian Dialects

Bibliography

Illyrians in and around Europe

Explanatory Note

Ethnography

Etymology and Numismatics

References

Bibliography

Epigraphy: Empress Valeria Messalina in Inscription

Transcription and Analysis

Conclusion and Facts

Bibliography

Norway and Kongsberg Inscription

Foreword

The author of this book has indirectly reconstructed the past of some ancient civilizations masterfully by using facts and multidimensional analysis from humanities and sciences.

It is an honor and pleasure to read and keep in the personal library a book of such a genre that, like a magnet, holds you there until you finish reading its last page.

I sincerely thank the author for his effort, dedication, and knowledge that he has brought to the public with this synoptic-historical linguistic publication.

Preface

It is a special pleasure for me to bring to the global public some of my scientific achievements in the field of epigraphy.

Epigraphy is the science that studies ancient writings of antiquity, realized with carving in solid objects that are classified as inscriptions.

These scripts have particular importance where linguists and historians rely on these data, throughout studying the languages and writings of ancient history and ancient cultures, finding the geo-positions and developments of past civilizations, making the necessary corrections by naming them, placing them in real files that belong to the world cultural heritage.

Epigraphy was born and developed as the art itself, primarily through religious facilities where its lovers reading ancient writings amounted to read the mysteries of culture and civilizations of the past.

The inscriptions to be displayed in this material can be called, without hesitation, monuments of epigraphy science because these searches on those inscriptions have a history of over fifty years and ceaseless attempts to find their solution of many prestigious academies in the region and the world that have so far only been attempted without providing the final solution.

My success on tests on the final puzzle, solving these inscriptive shall dedicate my family who created all appropriate conditions to perform such work so important in one of my successful scientific researches based on the analytical reading of the writings of ancient culture and Illyrian-Pelasgian language.

Nowadays, in honor of electronics, can say that epigraphy has become a science that is studied not only in departments and museums but also in e-archives that are specially designed in its service; all success is undisputed that reduces opportunities for misinterpretations because the faces of the truth in scientific interpretation is an endless reality.

So the review of the inscriptions has now become a necessity, turning the epigraphy an exact science reference not only of civilizations of the past but also those of the future.

An anecdote said, Who knows the past teaches the future.

Not rarely, epigraphic studies controlled for political benefits or impacts of theo-philosophy have become the subject of wrong interpretations.

Examples of distortion of history are numerous like that mentioned in Stolen Legacy, George GM James, the subheading, Greek philosophy is a philosophy stolen from Egypt.

Also, researchers in the field of numismatics infrequently present such situations, and the examples are numerous.

One such is the owl stamped in Athens tetradrachma currency, which is valued at conference numismatics as a copy of the same currency tetradrachma of ancient Egypt that disappeared after the conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Great but continued to be stamped in Athens as tetradrachma.

The writing in them is realized in Pelasgian alphabet and is manufactured (cut) to fund the war in Peloponnesus in the period 431–413 BC.

On the backside of this coin is an inscribed Egyptian owl that was initiated as early as the time of Pharaoh the Great, 3,100 years before Christ (Eastern owl at the 2002 ANA World's).

Epigraphy in the world is treated as a branch of philology; relevant ancient languages, for example, Latin and Greek, it is called Greco-Latin epigraphy.

What about Illyrian-Pelasgian language?

The world has not yet created a term in use of this type, but the future will soon make necessary new changes as the influx of these studies and research consistently insists on creating case such a term.

Epigraphy is closely related to numismatics, which is another area of this science, and both are inseparable from archaeology and serve as a primary source of reference material for writing and for studying science history of antiquity and ancient civilizations.

Epigraphy, as a separate science, has developed more in researching and transcription in writings of ancient culture Greece and Latin because in this sector are doing researches and deeper scientific studies.

While earlier the culture of Illyrian-Pelasgian-Leleges, epigraphy is in its infancy as many of inscriptions (collected writings carving) found in geo-Illyricum spaces are studied very often without scientific expertise from various academies of the region, and the world that resulted not definitive and the funds are stockpiled and labeled in wrong, cultures, civilizations, and ethnicity, extinct or not known until now.

Also, many of these inscriptions are not complete since the object that was conducted stationery (tiles or stone monument) is broken and damaged that often lacks debris or lost large parts of which are displaced from one place to another to use in subsequent constructions and are not found, making it difficult to read and fully promote transcription on these inscriptions.

New findings and old ones in the field of epigraphy, not interpreted strictly belonging to the Illyrian-Pelasgian culture, are often the subject of ownership comeback later cultures and civilizations, so reestablishing their respective fund heritage culture and history will require deep scientific analysis associated with energy and more precise studies in the field of linguistics and history of antiquity.

My epigraphy researches are based on deep linguistic scientist analysis, whatever their outcome, and are not oriented to the purpose of studying the birth and creation of new nations and nationalities everywhere, whether in the region or elsewhere.

My goal in this research is, based on their score, to place those scripts (inscriptions) in the respective fund's world of past cultures and civilizations to know the mysteries of the languages of ancient civilizations in the respective regions.

After many years of research work in epigraphy fund Greece et Latinae, relying on Albanian language lexicology and its dialects, I found myself ready to cope successfully with the challenges in the study of writings developed in ancient languages, transcript them throughout the depth of the necessary stages of these articles, especially the writings in Pelasgian-Illyrians, the most prominent tip of the iceberg. The inscription else that is found in the cave of Sitovos is dated by the method of C-fourteen at an age 4000–4500 years BC and in writing called Boustrophedon, where each row is written from right to left and next line, the other, from left to right or vice versa.

An interesting writing from antiquity and its contents can be considered scripture found in Ilina Gora, which method of carbon is dated to 7000–6500 BC, where the shape of the letters are similar to characters painted pebbles (pebbles) cave Mas D'Azil in France along with the Altamira cave paintings in Spain have been proposed by scientists that they belong to a period fifteen thousand to twenty thousand years earlier than the classical Egyptian Alphabets of hieroglyphs, demotic, and the Phoenician alphabet.

Both articles mentioned above are a variant of the early Pelasgian alphabet whose tracks are massive until late in the fifth and fourth century BC, everywhere in the Balkans, Greece, and Asia Minor.

With this, the alphabet carried the inscription of Messalina that is engraved on a stone tablet, half of which is not possible to find, and the script is not fully completed while the other half is published by a priest as Messalina.

There is clearly distinguished Pelasgian alphabet, and important here to