Re: [tied] Re: Etruscan-Lydian connection?

On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:31:09 +0000, Andrew Dalby
<akdalby@...> wrote:

>My belief has been that ancient Greeks developed the hypothesis that
>the Etruscans originated in Lydia because they saw analogies between
>Lydian and Etruscan culture.
>
>So far as I know, the nearest thing to evidence is the Etruscan
>inscription on the northeastern Aegean island of Lemnos. But that's
>what it is -- pure Etruscan, not an ancestral or related language,

We cannot read the Lemnos stele, as we cannot read most of
the Etruscan material, but it is clear that the Lemnos stele
is not written in "pure Etruscan". We can say it is
"Etruscoid" because it contains some things reminiscent of
Etruscan, most notably the age formula <avis' sialchveis'>,
which is <avils sealchls> in "pure Etrsucan".

>and in normal Etruscan script

Most definitely not. The Lemnos stele is written in normal
Thessalian Greek script.


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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