Sirfiroth Wrote:
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> Hi Greg,
>
>
> Local Indians told the then landowner Franz Huning
> in 1871 that the monument predated their tribes
> coming to the area.
>
> It was about 78 years after the local Indians made
> their claim it was able to be translated, since
> there Paleo-Hebrew was virtually unknown by the
> scholars of that time.
>
> About one century later, in 1949, Robert H.
> Pfeiffer of the Harvard University, made a first
> known translation of the strange writing. Being an
> authority on the Old Testament (the Hebrew
> Scriptures of the Bible) he concluded that the
> inscription was a copy of the Ten Commandments. He
> thought that the inscription was written in the
> Phoenician, the Moabite, and the Greek languages.
>
>
> The mountain is nearly flat on top with a 360 deg
> view in any direction. The boulders and cliff
> tops are littered with petroglyphs and collapsed
> rock ruins. We hiked a full circle of the top
> which is about a mile long and a half mile wide.
> We found a Greek inscription on a basalt boulder
> and more ruins and saw a Phoenician Tanit symbol
> just below the cliff face on the north side.
> There were between 20 and 30 abandoned ruins which
> were obviously not of the Ancestral Puebloen
> style. I wonder if they were of Jewish or
> Phoenician origin?
>
> Regards
>

It is Hibbens who reports that Huning was told, etc. I can see no indication it was mentioned in Huning's memoirs, which you would have expected. David Allan Deal has some stories about it also but who would trust him?

Doug Weller

Director The Hall of Ma'at
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