Re: Phaistos Disk : the solving of an epigraphical problem

From: grapheus (grapheus_at_www.com)
Date: 07/11/04 

Date: 11 Jul 2004 16:01:47 -0700

qakare@hotmail.com (Qakare) wrote in message news:<dad05270.0407110819.5bf8d3ee@posting.google.com>...
> grapheus@www.com (grapheus) wrote in message news:<337ae51f.0407080500.76e1ac5c@posting.google.com>...
> > On the FACE A of the Phaistos Disk, anyone may notice in the
> > compartment A29 a crowding of the signs, which does'n't exist in the
> > adjacent compartments (A28 and A30/A31).
> For a reading from right to left, it is obvious that the crowding in
> the compartment A29 was made just to finish the text in the available
> space. This is explained already by Florence Stawell in 1911 (Florence
> Stawell, An Interpretation of the Phaistos Disk. In: The Burlington
> Magazine, Bd. 19, p. 28). Maybe somebody would ask why the crowding
> comes at the beginning of A29. Very easy, because the other signs in
> A28 and A29 are too largely, to print one above the other. No further
> explanation is needed. Because this explanation is independent from
> the reading of the Phaistos Disk, the crowding can not be used as a
> proof for a correct reading.
>

Or you are of BAD FAITH, or you did understand the problem !...
The problem is not "Why the scribe crowded the signs is A29 ?" , to
which one may answer as Florence Stawell (and after her J.Faucounau)
did. It is : "Why the signs were not ALSO crowded in A30 and mainly in
A31 ?"... (The thing is obvious in A31 : one has just to compare, for
instance, the distance between the "tatooed head" and the "rosette",
in A31 and in A28).
To this EPIGRAPHICAL QUESTION (1), one may add three more questions :
2)- Why the scribe DID NOT repeat in A29/A31 the WHOLE sentence
A17/A19 ?..
3)- Why the A29 word is followed by the word 13-1 , insted of the word
33-23 ?
4)- Why the last word A31 is the same as A28 in the sentence A26/A28
?..

NOBODY has given an answer to QUESTION (1), which was the HEART of my
demonstration !..

As for the other questions, here are, for instance, the answers given
by F. Stawell : She CUT in THREE parts what are -a priori (and a
posteriori!)- "sentences", so there is no more problem concerning
(2), (3) and (4) : :
A17/A19 becomes : "Lady, keep silence ! // I sacrifice // Lady, come !
A29/A31 : "Lady,keep silence! // Hearken! // Behold, I call !
A26/A28 : "Lady,hearken !// Draw near !// Behold, I call !

But, is such a solution, with EVERY COMPARTMENT being a WHOLE SHORT
SENTENCE very plausible?.. Seems difficult to think so... Mainly when
one notices that in some cases, F. Stawell has been OBLIGED to CUT
EVEN A COMPARTMENT in several sentences !.. For instance, B57 is cut
into : ia/a/klata , translated : "All hail ! // Ho! // Clang !"..
But I suppose that you will found in the numerous UNPROVED deciphering
attempts MARVELOUS SOLUTIONS, answering MAGNIFICENTLY to questions
(2), (3) and (4) !...

grapheus

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