Re: International Conference on the Phaistos Disk

On Oct 9, 3:14 pm, Adam Funk <a24...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Not if (as I suspect) he considers the stuff on the disk not to be
"writing" (but rather doodling or a hoax, for example).

He said time and again that the disc(s) can't be
deciphered. He posted hundreds if not more than
thousand messages on this topic, and he dismissed
Derk Ohlenroth's book a priori, for years and years,
judging it time and again, without ever having laid
eyes on it, not even a glass eye. Being an expert
on writing systems but claiming not to be interested
in this object is really funny. He is behaving irrationally
whenever it comes to that object, and the reason is
that it will overturn what we know about early writing:
the first alphabet was Greek, not Phoenician. It is
a peculiar alphabet, though, in my opinion combining
a phonetic writing with visual or graphic messages
- the Elaia disc representing Elaia's grove at Phigalia,
and the Tiryns disc representing Tiryns, as explained
in my paper published here in this thread on October 1,
as I recall. However, the story of the alphabet will not
be overturned completely. The Minoans came from
Asia Minor, from Ebla I dare say, they spoke a
Semitic language, and Crete in the Middle Minoan /
Middle Helladic period of time was a laboratory of
writing, so in all probability it was a Cretan scribe
who developed the Greek alphabet used on the
pair of discs. A close variant is found on the bronze
double axe of Arkalochori, another inscription on
the altar stone at Mallia - all testifying to a laboratory
of early writing in Europe, and all of them deciphered
by Derk Ohlenroth in his great book. By the way,
I also recommend Peter's book The World's Writing
System, I like it, and I help him write a second volume
on new insights about early writing ...
.

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