Bembine Tablet
The Bembine Tablet, the Bembine Table of Isis or the ''Mensa Isiaca'' (Isiac Tablet) is an elaborate tablet of bronze with enamel and silver inlay, most probably of Ancient Rome, Roman origin but imitating the ancient Egyptian style. It was named in the Renaissance after Cardinal Bembo, a celebrated antiquarian who acquired it after the 1527 Sack of Rome (1527), sack of Rome. Thereafter it was used by antiquarians to penetrate the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs, which were not authentically deciphered Jean-François Champollion, until the 19th century. Owing to these prior misconceptions, the tablet became of importance to western esoteric traditions. Origin and construction The Tablet is now regarded as of Roman rather than Egyptian origin, dating to some time in the first century CE. Little is known of its subsequent history until after the Sack of Rome (1527), sack of Rome in 1527, when Cardinal Bembo acquired it from a certain locksmith or ironworker into whose hands it had f ...
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