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Originally Posted by Solon
I actually don't think it's all that innovative to write on metal. Ancient Greek Orphics (500 years before Trajan) used to write mystic/magic/religious scripts on tiny gold sheets and place them in with the deceased, so that they would know the correct words and incantations to say as they made their way through the treacherous dangers of the afterlife to a blessed paradise.
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This is most likely what I saw in the Israeli Museum. Explain to me why an expanded version of this idea couldn't be applied to Nephi.
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