(16-02-2018, 06:58 AM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Many years ago Jim Reeds tried to retrace Brumbaugh's steps, and had to come to the conclusion that he used different tables in his various papers.
René, I wouldn't be at all surprised. I can't prove it, but I got the feeling, while working through his system on the "star names" in this article that his claim that the rest of the labels were the same thing repeated was rationalizing the fact that his system couldn't generalize beyond the first few (which is the problem most researchers encounter), and thus he came up with an "explanation" for the problem (and a table with many alternate readings for each glyph) rather than going back to the drawing board to create a system that would work for a larger block of text.
Perhaps the various papers were attempts to go back to the drawing board but worked only in a limited way. I guess I'll have a better sense of what he was doing on other sections of the manuscript when I've worked through a few more articles... if I have time.