Re: Phaistos disk (was: boustrophedon)

Ray Brown scripsit:

> > My opinion is that it's a game board.
>
> With a different game printed on each side?
Why not?  I own a number of chessboards with a backgammon board printed
on the reverse.  Here the games would be rather more similar, to be sure;
perhaps some sort of parcheesi-like game where the symbols (or some of them)
have significance to the game: "take another turn", "back 5 spaces",
"forward 3 spaces".

I would rather believe such a theory than the claim that an entirely
unknown script using an entirely un-heard-of manner of writing (spiral)
exists in only a single exemplar.   Everything we know about the early
history of writing involves multiple exemplars of even the oldest forms.

ObArgument: Christophe, is this .sig French?

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