Corpuscles Wrote:
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> Martin Stower Wrote:
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> > Possibly: “And now, šmsw and I think we
> > have the, year 17. It was—it’s fading—on
> > the other side here. You can see, remains of
> > graffiti.”
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> > M.
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> > Edited 2019-12-01: small punctuation change.
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> Master
> Even if he says or refers to šmsw how
> would that noun, in any way point to a year?
> Thanks
> Grasshopper

I think he means a sequence: šmsw (which remarkably is there, in one reading of one of the characters) and then “year 17” in “remains of graffiti” which only he can see.

We notice that we are not given anything like a clear view of what he is waving at and for the last bit it cuts to a view of his face. Which has me thinking again of just how fake it all is. Was this a serious statement, or mere performance?

What we see in closeup earlier is the known inscription at this location, very much as Hill recorded it in 1837:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xiwylg?start=1975

There is no date in Hill’s 1:1 “facsimile” of this and there are no dates anywhere in Hill’s or Perring’s records of these chambers.

The zoom is to the character read šmsw.

M.