Phaistos Disk : The so-called "Luwian parallels"

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As Peter T. Daniels, caught like a fish into the net of the "Risch-
Chadwick Orthodoxy", is UNABLE to answer to Dr Eisenberg's statements,
let me do it in a scientific way for the four Phaistos Disk's signs
supposed to have been "inspired to Luigi Pernier" by Luwian
Hieroglyphs :

1)- S38 (rosette) : It is true that this sign can be found on Hittite
Seals from Boghazköi that L. Pernier could have seen. But it is MAINLY
a motive VERY USUAL in the Minoan-Greek Civilization. It has been
found on Camares vases as on the Tempel on the Akropolis at Athens.
Saying that the "inspiration is Luwian" is NOT proved.
2)- S26 (horn) : It is also true that this sign (corresponding to
Hitt. surna) has bee found at Keratepe, Kargamis, Alep and even Assur.
So it is "not impossible" that Luigi Pernier knew its existence. But
it is the design of an UNIVERSAL object. So much, that one can also
found it AS a HIEROGLYPH, in the Egyptian script... Nothing
surprising, therefore, to find it ALSO in the Phaistos Disk's script,
and NO NEED for the "inventor of this script to have followed a
model !!!!!
3)- S15 (pic-axe) : A SIMILAR , but NOT IDENTICAL, is attested ONLY
in the Karahöyük-Elbistan 10 Inscription. There seems NO POSSIBILITY
for L. Pernier to have known it. On the other hand, a STRICTLY
IDENTICAL object has been found at Kythnos in a CYCLADIC layer.
4)- S12 (rosette) : As far as I know, there is NO strictly identical
hieroglyph attested in a Luwian/Hittite inscription, that L. Pernier
could have known., and I challenge Dr Eisenberg to bring some contrary
proof.
But this "type of shield" has been used by GREEKS and by "Sea
Peoples". Q.E.D.

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