Re: Is there a more comprehensive Old Persian lexicon than R.G. Kent's?
- From: zeroDontSpamMetype@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:43:40 +0100
>Is it possible that someone simply transliterated an English message
>into OPers cuneiform, and the gimmick was simply to get you to identify
>the script and then read it?
Unfortunately, that was the first thing I tried, with no luck.
>And did you rule out Ugaritic? Some of the letters are similar in the
>two scripts.
'Fraid it definitely isn't Ugaritic.
Interestingly, it contains one symbol, sort of like a "K", which looks
like Old Persian but isn't. I'm not sure whether to treat it as a K, a
null, or an indicator of a fake message.
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