Does any published reading of the disc hold up?
Answered: No published reading meets the basic checks.Passed its tests and review.
Where it stands
Four answers have been proposed. No published reading meets the basic checks. leads, with evidence 1 for: supported by its tests. Three are still possible.
Why it matters
Dozens of readings have been published. Judging them by stated criteria, rather than by their confidence, is how the field has handled the problem[1].
Answers 4
History
- Duhoux puts forward: no published reading meets the basic checks.
- Duhoux: the reading has not been adopted by Anatolian or Aegean specialists.Against: The Achterberg et al. Luwian reading is substantially correct.
- Duhoux: duhoux's review documents the failures of the Greek reading and states the criteria.For: No published reading meets the basic checks.
- Achterberg et al. puts forward: the Achterberg et al. Luwian reading is substantially correct.
- National Documentation Centre (EKT) puts forward: the Owens–Coleman reading, which gives Linear A and B values to look-alike signs and reads a hymn to a mother…
- National Documentation Centre (EKT): the reading has been reported in press and institutional news as covering 99 per cent of the text but has no…Against: The Owens–Coleman reading, which gives Linear A and B values to look-alike signs and reads a hymn to a mother…
- Davis: shared sign shapes do behave alike in the disc and Linear A, which is consistent with but does not establish…For: The Owens–Coleman reading, which gives Linear A and B values to look-alike signs and reads a hymn to a mother…
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