From: tgpedersen
Message: 64977
Date: 2009-09-04
> ****GK: ... I've re-examined your upload of type III on the basisTake a look again at
> of my newly acquired gakk-reading expertise (:=)) and compared the
> signs to those in the Yatsenko article. There are most definitely
> three gakks there, distinct yet closely related. What is even more
> interesting is that they are most certainly of the Farzoi family
> type! Not Farzoi's own but very close. The Farzoi gakk was a
> straight line topped by a simple half moon on one side and an
> inverted half moon on the bottom side. The Mushov gakks are all
> variants of this: one is in the form of a cross which is actually a
> Farzoi marker crossed with another Farzoi marker. Another is like a
> Farzoi marker broken in half with the two pieces rejoined at right
> angle at the middle. The third is also a broken up Farzoi type with
> the pieces connected by a straight line at the middle. Apart from
> this, the spearhead has a number of circular lunar or solar signs,
> which to Yatsenko would indicate that it is Germanic. If the dating
> of the grave is as above, it is possible that these gakks belonged
> to a successor of Inismei (Farzoi's royal clan seems to have ruled
> until the mid-2nd c.CE. But other interpretations are also possible
> (Farzoi's brother? or some other relative?.*****
>