A scientist from Adygea Nurbiy Lovpache deciphered mysterious symbols and inscriptions in the form of petroglyphs and hieroglyphs on the recently discovered Loo plate, dating from the Bronze Age. In his opinion, we are talking about the soul and the afterlife, which once again confirms the burial function of the megaliths of the Western Caucasus.
N. Lovpache immediately determined that the symbols refer to the proto-writing of the most ancient civilization. By some estimates, the result of this study could be a scientific sensation. The discovered inscriptions and drawings on the Loo plate may indicate that writing in the Caucasus originated much earlier than it is generally believed.
Before that, the most ancient monument of writing was the Maikop plate, which is 3.2 thousand years old. The estimated age of the Loo plate is 4000 years, the border of the 2nd and 3rd millennia BC. So far, this is only a hypothesis, but it has the right to exist, further development, study and proof, the scientist believes.
The Loo plate - an artifact, weighing about half a ton, was discovered near a mountain stream in May 2014 near the village of Loo in Sochi. As Nurbiy Lovpache suggests, a slab of fine-grained sandstone 50 by 60 cm and about 22 cm thick as a result of landslides slid into a ravine between two roads, where local historians found it.
Among them are a representative of the Shapsug community Khusht Madin and a Sochi resident Andrey Kizilov, an employee of the archeology department of the Adyghe Republican Institute for Humanitarian Research. They donated this plate to the RA National Museum.
For two months, Nurbiy Lovpache deciphered each symbol and established their relationship, based on the Hittite hieroglyphic script. According to the scientist, the slab was stratified into two fragments, each of which has inscriptions of burial significance, the heavenly bodies, a ship, a fish, a deer, a lattice, a dolmen facade, etc. are clearly visible. After careful study, Nurbiy Lopache managed to decipher them and build a coherent text.
“The first fragment reads: 'The soul of the great prophet, the famous archer. At the 11th half moon, Muxa's soul reached the pseun (House of the soul). " On the second fragment - "With respect to the soul of Asitavad's great-grandfather and the priestess. We went to the pseun on the sun water, "said Nurbiy Lovpache.
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He also noted that the labels are read from right to left or top to bottom. The scientist added that around the inscription are pictures explaining it. One plot - a deer on a pole - is a royal burial symbol characterizing the ancient Maikop culture (only gobies are mainly present in it). Another plot is a seven-pointed star, also characteristic of the Adyghe folklore.
“In addition, a lattice is depicted on the slab - this is an agricultural symbol, and a boat with a mast, a dolmen facade, a fish signifying the afterlife are clearly visible. It can be assumed that this slab was part of either a dolmen or a sanctuary. And the ancestors of the Circassians were the builders of megaliths and the founders of the dolmen culture,”said Nurbiy Lovpache.