Harry Falk has written to me as follows:

There is something in my book Schrift im alten Indien, Tübingen 1993, pp. 117-119.

His conclusion: "Eine Verbindung der bislang einzigartigen Zeichen mit der Brāhmī ist reine Spekulation. Die angebotenen Lesungen entbehren jeder Grundlage."

So, not unexpectedly, that's it, then. Verdict: unknown but almost certainly not Brāhmī.

Jonathan

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Patrick Olivelle <jpo@uts.cc.utexas.edu> wrote:
This is not listed in Richard's bibliography.



On Mar 30, 2015, at 10:02 AM, Jonathan Silk <kauzeya@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Colleagues,

I have been asked about an article:

A Line of Brāhmī (?) Script in a Babylonian Contract Tablet 

 G. V. Bobrinskoy

 Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 56, No. 1 (Mar., 1936), pp. 86-88 

I am very far from being a specialist in Brahmi, but I'm not convinced. But I couldn't see that anyone has responded to this article... ever. The date of the tablet is pre-Aśokan, which only makes me more suspicious, but...
(A quick look through von Hinüber's book on early writing did not show up any reference, nor is there reference in Salomon's inscriptions book).

jonathan
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