From: Andrew Dalby
Message: 43972
Date: 2006-03-28
>Thanks for the corrections, Miguel
> 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.
>
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...
>