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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, CeiSerith@... wrote:
> In a message dated 2/23/2003 8:19:58 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> kalyan97@... writes:> Since, among other reasons, all this
would require that the language of > the seals be an identifiable
form of an Indic language, I hope you will > excuse my skepticism.
And since, apart from the background figures, most of > the
iconography on the cauldron has parallels in other Celtic art, I'll
have > to doubt this rebus system with regards to the cauldron. If
nothing else, it > would require some Indic-speaking Thracians who
could explain the symbolism > of the images to their patrons in
order for there to be a point.
David Fickett-Wilbar, skepticism is warranted. Whenver Proto-Indo-
Aryan (Common ancestor of all Indo-Aryan languages including Vedic,
Sanskrit and all the Prakrits) or PIAS is sought to be seen as part
of PIE, skepticism is warranted, because not enough areal studies
have been done.
I can't speak of the icons on the cauldron. If there are parallels
with Celtic/IVC, there are also many new layers in the 13 panels of
the cauldron.
I was conjecturing the rebus system for icons on IVC seals using
some forms which may appear in PIA (Proto-Indo-Aryan) -- in the
context of early metallurgy.