--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:
>
> I would just like to point out to everybody that EteoCypriot is
> a Tyrrhenian language related to Etruscan, Lemnian, Rhaetic,
> Camunic and now even Minoan (Linear A). Everybody keeps on
> saying that EteoCypriot and Minoan are undeciphered and
> unclassified. I'm tired of it so here's my arguement for
> genetic relationship...
>
> Check out this Amathusan bilingual text and tell me that this
> ain't Etruscan-looking:
I was browsing through "Historical Atlas and Gazetteer"* by Arnold
Toynbee and Edward D. Myers today and I noticed an interesting item,
possibly related to this. On two maps, "The Hittite and Minoan Worlds
in the Second Half of the Fourteenth Century B.B. ...", and "The
Aegean, Egypt, and South-West Asia on the Eve of the Barbarian
Invasions at the Turn of the 13th and 12th Centuries B.C." Toynbee
and Myers show Turusha/Tyrseni(?) or Turusa [with an inverted caret
over the "s"] in western Cilicia, directly north of Cyprus, in the
closest spot in Anatolia to the island.
I don't know what source(s?) Toynbee and Myers relied on to place the
Turusha there, but think it worth pointing out this possible
connection, in light of Glen's hypothesis.
Ned Smith
*"Historical Atlas and Gazetteer" ("A Study of History", vol. xi);
Arnold J. Toynbe & Edward D. Myers; Oxford University Press; 1959;
pp. 107, 108.