At 17:07 +0200 2002-07-04, Otto Stolz wrote:
>Michael Everson wrote:
>>That, and the fact that it hasn't been deciphered.
>
>Which implies that you really cannot tell what constitutes a character,
>in that script, nor its writing-direction.
Actually it appears that the writing direction is into the faces of
the characters, and that the impression in the clay indicates that
this was the likely direction of printing. And as far as the
repertoire is concerned, it is small and each character is easily
differentiated from the others.
-- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
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