John Ray (4)
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After the discussion of the stone and its translators, Ray continues a number of only slightly germane but always interesting directions: the ongoing questions of who “owns” the Rosetta Stone, or museum collections of antiquities in general – although the return of the stone to Egypt doesn’t get quite as much press as the return of the Elgin Marbles to Greece, it’s still a propaganda touch point between Egypt and England; and a discussion of translating unknown languages in general, including a pretty good explanation of how Michael Ventris translated Linear B and Yuri Knorosov translated Mayan, neither of which had a “Rosetta Stone” multilingual inscription. (Basic principal: count the number of unique symbols; if there are thousands, your unknown language is ideographic; if hundreds, it’s a mix of ideographic and syllabic (like Egyptian or Akkadian); if in the 50-100 range, it’s syllabic; if 20-30, alphabetic. Then go to a medium and ask to speak to Michael Ventris in the beyond).
An enjoyable light read.… (mehr)