Great idea, Michael. But I think we could offer $100,000
to Asko if he came up with the "original Homer" written in
Linear B. We could get maybe $100 million for that on the
London antiquities market. Hmm, I bet Trudy herself would
stake us the $100,000. :^)

This is better than Asko's claim that brought him to
prominence in 1969, when he became famous for claiming that
he had used computers to crack the "Indus code."

Steve

Michael Witzel wrote:

> Why should one care about such small details as the difference
> between the Mycenean syllabary script (Linear B) and the Semitic
> alphabet of early Greek, -- when the differences in case are much
> more pronounced: a symbol system (FSW) and Parpola's "logo-syllabic
> Indus script"?
>
> By the way, Steve, the Mycenean Homeric texts must be in some "lost
> archive"...
>
> Shall we offer another $10,000 for finding it?
>
> March madness...
>
> Michael
>
> On Mar 8, 2008, at 11:24 AM, Trudy Kawami wrote:
>
> > [Mod. note. Trudy is referring to the reported claim by
> > Parpola that "the Rig Veda was at first very creative but
> > then when they switched to the mode of preserving it via the oral
> > tradition they made it very rigid so that it can't be changed
> > at all. He said they same thing happened in Greece after Homerian
> > Poems were written down using Linear B script." - SF.]
> >
> > Of course I got lost a bit on the way, but I did glean that the
> > Homerian (Homeric?) poems were written in Linear B. My mind
> > boggles.