--- Piotr Gasiorowski <
gpiotr@...> wrote
(to a different poster):
> Thanks for the references. In As'oka's times there
> was already enough
> stylistic variation in the Brahmi system to
> guarantee a prehistory of
> some length, so it's hardly a surrprise if its
> beginnings are dated
> back to 500 BC or earlier. Still, not 1200 BC, and
> not in the steppes
> of Ukraine.
****GK: As a mere mediaeval textologist and historian
I must defer to your linguistic expertise, which
perusal of this list's archives shows to be
outstanding. The date of the pot could be as late as
ca. 800 BC. Since there has been a question asked in
another post I'm sure that the issue of Pontic
Indo-Aryans will surface soon, perhaps instantly. The
pot could be of great interest quite independently of
the problem "where" as to the origination of its
putative "pre-Sanskrit" script. Because if the script
is not local the fact remains that it accompanies the
burial of an individual in Ukraine. We don't know that
this individual was local either. We don't know where
he came from. Personally I would find it just as
exciting to assume that he came here from India,or
from somewhere in between, and found a life among
people of related speech. On the other hand, if one
has made so much of the Bronocice pot, I see no
immediate reason to reject the "Artemivs'k pot" as
evidence for the emergence of an ancient system of
writing there, and its eventual migration towards the
southeast. I'm sorry that I can't provide the evidence
directly for your (and others') analysis. But perhaps
the references that I gave may be of some use.******
>
> Piotr
>
>
>
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