 The legible words on the Sacred Parchment are a line taken from  Vergil: Aeneis, book 2, line 774: obstipui steteruntque comae et vox  faucibus haesit The translation is "I was dumbstruck, (my) hair  stood up and (my) voice was stuck in (my) throat." Fleeing the  burning Troy, Aeneas has lost his wife, Creusa, and is about to look  for her when her shadow appears and talks to him. In line 774 he  describes his sensations when seeing this shadow. There does not  seem to be a reason why the makers chose this line.