--- Francesco Brighenti <
frabrig@...> wrote:
>
> All in all, it is difficult to take Harmatta's two
> "transcribed
> inscriptions" mentioned in my recent posts as
> evidence of the Old
> Iranian stage of Scythian -- which, as I have
> already observed, would
> be kind of a "revolution" in Iranian philology.
>
> Regards,
> Francesco
****GK: As a P.S. to your remarks. It'll be
interesting to see any followups to the December 2007
communication that a great metropolis has just been
discovered under the waters of Lake Issyk-Kul:
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20071227/94372640.html
Manuscripts can hardly be expected to have survived,
but inscriptions, with luck, might have (if the
comparisoms to Pontus and the Mediterranean hold).
Nothing was found in the preliminary forays, it
seems.****
>
>
>
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