Re: Phaistos disk (was: boustrophedon)

Jeff Jones writes:
 > On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 17:45:58 EDT, J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> wrote:
 >
 > >In a message dated 07/14/2002 11.37.10 PM, Ray Brown writes:
 > >
 > >>> My opinion is that it's a game board.
 > >
 > >   An early version of _Life_, mayhaps? or Steps-&-Ladders?
 > >
 > >   Or perhaps it is both a game and an oracle in "a nicely designed 2-in-1
 > >portable package"? (Or even a prototype that never caught on...)
 > >
 > >---------------------------------------------------------------------~->
 > >Hanuman Zhang
 >
 > It's obviously a conlang/script, left behind by an absent-minded time-
 > traveller.

Why should a timetraveller be necessary?  Can't the Minoans produce
native conlanger/potters?

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