05-10-2019, 06:45 PM
(05-10-2019, 12:36 AM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Mark, I know you've been working on this in a dedicated way and you are also honest about crediting which parts of the ideas you got from Nick. I have no doubt you are really trying to solve it, not just trying to get something published that makes it look like you're ahead of the pack (which is the impression I get from this paper which seems superficial and which credits a lot of out-of-date sources and none of the recent ones).
When I first investigated the 9 rosette page, with the view to it possibly being a map, I thought it likely that the place of origin of the author would be included on the map and potentially highlighted in the broadest sense or in some way given undue prominence. Having coming to the idea that it was an itinerary map or a map of a journey then I thought it even more likely that the place where the author came from would be clear as a journey has a start and an end. I had a big hope that by identifying this place one might be able to identify the author. Now if one identified the place of origin as say Chigaco, for example, then it wouldn't help a lot as Chicago is a huge city and there would therefore be a huge number of people that it could be. But I must admit that I hoped there would be a location smaller and more specific from which one could find a shortlist of possible authors. Also if I was very fortunate indeed then that shortlist might consist of just one person. Now there is a lot of hoping and wishing here, but that should at least give an idea of why the page being a map could be very significant.