--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...> wrote:

> Richard Wordingham wrote:
> >
> > --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
> > <richard.wordingham@...> wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
> > > wrote:
> > > > Richard Wordingham wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Peter T. Daniels wrote on Sunday, April 17, 2005 5:47 PM

> Then why does Roger Woodard state that the "Fayum" [sic] plaques, which
> provide an Aleph to Tav, or as he sees it Alpha to Tau, sequence, are
> Greek rather than Phoenician abecedaries?

Because they're in a 'local' (i.e. Cypriot?) form of the alphabet,
apparently ancestral to the Greek alphabet? Given the Phoenician
settlements and the presence of the native Eteocypriot language,
calling them 'Greek' may be stretching the term a bit. Could you make
anything useful out of the pictures, e.g. at
http://www.nb.no/baser/schoyen/4/4.4/441.html . (It has a catalogue
number MS)

Richard.