Lemnian stele
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The Lemnian stele is an ancient inscribed stone slab discovered on the island of Lemnos that bears one of the few known texts in the extinct Lemnian language, closely related to Etruscan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lemnian stele canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2184756 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lemnian stele Context triple: [Lemnian language, evidence, Lemnian stele]
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A.
Pyrgi Tablets
The Pyrgi Tablets are a set of ancient gold inscriptions from the 5th century BCE bearing parallel texts in Etruscan and Phoenician, making them a key source for understanding the Etruscan language and its cultural contacts.
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B.
Rosetta Stone
The Rosetta Stone is an ancient granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree in three scripts that provided the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs.
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C.
Phaistos
Phaistos is an important Bronze Age Minoan palace and archaeological site in southern Crete, known for its well-preserved ruins and the discovery of the enigmatic Phaistos Disc.
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D.
Stele of Novilara
The Stele of Novilara is an ancient inscribed stone monument from the Picene region of Italy, bearing one of the most significant and enigmatic examples of the North Picene language.
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E.
Dream Stele of Thutmose IV
The Dream Stele of Thutmose IV is an ancient Egyptian inscribed stone slab commemorating a dream in which the future pharaoh was promised kingship by the sun god if he cleared the sand from the Great Sphinx of Giza.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lemnian stele Target entity description: The Lemnian stele is an ancient inscribed stone slab discovered on the island of Lemnos that bears one of the few known texts in the extinct Lemnian language, closely related to Etruscan.
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A.
Pyrgi Tablets
The Pyrgi Tablets are a set of ancient gold inscriptions from the 5th century BCE bearing parallel texts in Etruscan and Phoenician, making them a key source for understanding the Etruscan language and its cultural contacts.
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B.
Rosetta Stone
The Rosetta Stone is an ancient granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree in three scripts that provided the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs.
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C.
Phaistos
Phaistos is an important Bronze Age Minoan palace and archaeological site in southern Crete, known for its well-preserved ruins and the discovery of the enigmatic Phaistos Disc.
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D.
Stele of Novilara
The Stele of Novilara is an ancient inscribed stone monument from the Picene region of Italy, bearing one of the most significant and enigmatic examples of the North Picene language.
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E.
Dream Stele of Thutmose IV
The Dream Stele of Thutmose IV is an ancient Egyptian inscribed stone slab commemorating a dream in which the future pharaoh was promised kingship by the sun god if he cleared the sand from the Great Sphinx of Giza.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient inscription
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archaeological artifact ⓘ epigraphic monument ⓘ inscribed stele ⓘ |
| alphabetRelation |
Etruscan alphabet
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Greek alphabet ⓘ |
| approximateDate | 6th century BCE ⓘ |
| approximateDatingMethod |
paleographic analysis
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stylistic comparison with Archaic Greek art ⓘ |
| associatedLanguageStatus | extinct language ⓘ |
| associatedPeople | pre-Greek inhabitants of Lemnos ⓘ |
| chronologicalContext | pre-classical Aegean world ⓘ |
| chronology | Archaic period ⓘ |
| country | Greece ⓘ |
| culture |
Lemnos
ⓘ
surface form:
Lemnian
|
| currentLocation | National Archaeological Museum of Athens ⓘ |
| discoveredAt | Kaminia ⓘ |
| discoveredOn | island of Lemnos ⓘ |
| discoveryCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
human figure relief
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shield depiction ⓘ spear depiction ⓘ |
| hasInscriptionSide |
front side inscription
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lateral side inscription ⓘ |
| hasWriting | two-sided inscription ⓘ |
| iconography | armed male figure ⓘ |
| inscriptionLength | one of the longest known Lemnian texts ⓘ |
| inscriptionStatus | partially understood ⓘ |
| inscriptionType | funerary inscription ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Tyrsenian languages ⓘ |
| languageRelation | Etruscan language ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Lemnos ⓘ |
| material | stone ⓘ |
| museumCollection |
National Archaeological Museum of Athens
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surface form:
National Archaeological Museum of Athens epigraphic collection
|
| region | northern Aegean Sea ⓘ |
| researchField |
classical archaeology
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epigraphy ⓘ historical linguistics ⓘ |
| scriptDirection | right-to-left ⓘ |
| scriptType | alphabetic script ⓘ |
| significance |
evidence for Tyrsenian language family
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evidence for relationship between Lemnian and Etruscan ⓘ key evidence for Lemnian language ⓘ |
| usedFor | study of non-Indo-European languages of the ancient Mediterranean ⓘ |
| writingMedium | stone carving ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Lemnian language ⓘ |
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Subject: Lemnian stele Description of subject: The Lemnian stele is an ancient inscribed stone slab discovered on the island of Lemnos that bears one of the few known texts in the extinct Lemnian language, closely related to Etruscan.
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