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    Default Re: Forgery or Legit: Dacian art in lead plates?

    The material may be old, but they look very 1960's to me.
    Ok, this statement doesn't even correlate with the evidence that might suggest it's fake. The plates, if they are fake, come from the 19th century.

    hmm, there isn't even one letter missing due to random damage and corrosion, how likely is that?
    The plates were originally been made of gold, or so the story goes. I do agree though, it is suspicious how well these plates were preserved.

    Well meaning that lead is a very soft material. And these things don't show to many signs of degradation. They even have the look of 19th century printed material. Look at the overall form, not the letters.
    These are supposedly reproductions of them in the 19th century, so anything about how "good the lead looks" wouldn't reflect too much on the authenticity, since these are reproductions.

    The one thing which makes me really suspicious is the form of the translated words. Apperantly, the word for "god" is "dio", something which sounds very Italian (not even Latin, but like modern Italian). There are other suspicious translated words: paceo “peace”, armoso “army”, purcedeo “to leave, to proceed”. The abundant use of o's at the ends of words (read a little of the text) once again rings very much like modern Italian. The website tries to pass these off as "possibly words adopted from Latin by the Dacians" but something about this whole argument seems false.

    Then again, my argument above isn't evidence I'd take to court, but it gives me reason to be suspicious.
    Last edited by Romano-Dacis; 04-18-2008 at 12:57.

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