Re: Phaistos disk (was: boustrophedon)

 --- On Tue 07/16, Ray Brown  wrote:
From: Ray Brown [mailto: ray.brown@FREEUK.COM]
To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
Date: Tue 07/16
Subject: Re: Phaistos disk (was: boustrophedon)

> On Monday, July 15, 2002, at 02:12 , John Cowan wrote:
>
> > 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;
>
> No reason not indeed - but as you say the games would be similar.
>
> > 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".
In my opinion Mr. Brown's analysis is the best.
The spiral nature is not the main thing.

It is probably a syllable system.

I think that we can assume a lot of past writing
went on -- that we now have little evidence of.

~~ Anything below this line is NOT from me ===> Ted Saratoga ~~

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