Wonder if this is the breakthrough needed to finally crack Linear A. Probably still not enough but let's hope!
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Probably not.
If some breakthrough appears, I expect it to be a bilingual inscription containing the same text in Linear A and Linear B; similar to the Rosetta stone for Egyptian, having the text also in Greek was key.
"Be sure to drink your..."
Who knows what it was referring to.
Anyone willing to guess what's the language in Linear A?
Personally I wouldn't be surprised if it was:
- related to Etruscan and Lemnian
- Semitic
- non-Greek Indo-European (Anatolian?)
- some paleo-Balkan language unaffiliated with any of those, but you find some odd cognates in Greek for words without an IE origin.
that means there will be a new wave of ~~guesses~~ translations. :/
but yay, more text! :)
Linear A
It's clearly written in a circle. 🤨