Cylinder Seals from the Collections of the Aleppo Museum, Syrian Arab Republic, I

he concludes l'indo-europ6en pr6sente une parent6 typologique indeniable avec l'eteocretois (p. 262). Duhoux is respectful to those with whom he disagrees; he lists in his bibliography (pp. 263-90) no fewer than fourteen publications and a private communication of C. H. Gordon (pp. 273-75)-by far the most cited author in his book. But for this, he may have been taken to task by his colleagues, to judge from his next publication on the subject, namely, Le Lindaire A: Problemes de dechiffrement (Problems in Decipherment 49, ed. Y. Duhoux, T. G. Palaima and J. Bennet [Louvain-la-Neuve: Peeters, 1989], 59-119). This time none of Gordon's many books and articles devoted to Minoan Linear A is mentioned, and Duhoux concludes (p. 101) that though the language does not seem to be Indo-European or Semitic, it is probably Mediterranean and it would be worth delving into the languages of the Mediterranean that are neither IE nor Semitic. Such negativism and self-contradiction are tolerated by the establishment in its effort to deny the very existence of unwelcome facts. How long the comedy of denial will go on I will not venture to predict. More and more cracks are appearing in the fragile edifice of the extreme Aryan Model. Sooner or later the truth will prevail. When it does, the victory will owe much to Bernal's impressive work, which is reaching a large reading public

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• Middle Bronze Age Cylinder Seal and Cylinder Seal Impression from Lachish

  Pirhiya Beck•Tel Aviv•1998

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