Harappan Deciphered?!

Steve Farmer saf at SAFARMER.COM
Sun Jul 9 04:44:51 UTC 2000


K. Elst wrote:

> >An obvious weak point is that several sounds have
> >more than one sign representing them, though care was taken to avoid cases
> >where two such "allographs" appear on the same seal.

Michael Witzel wrote:

> Now that's already the *third* major ambiguity, added to those pointed out above.
> And the one which finally destroys the "system" altogether.

I suggest that we let Dr. Elst post and explain in detail the
Jha/Rajaram decipherment of the Dholhira sign, as previously
suggested. Any and all flaws in their system can be analyzed easily
enough once we have some empirical evidence in front of us. I'm
personally damn curious to see how a "Late Vedic" Sanskrit text is
drawn from a third millennium inscription!

http://www.harappa.com/seal/14.html





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