From rowland@loyno.edu Sun Mar  7 13:08:19 1999
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 19:00:02 -0600
From: rowland 
Reply-To: classics@u.washington.edu
To: classics@u.washington.edu
Subject: Re: The oldest Greek inscription

Phoenician inscriptions and precolonial emporia (where there was Greek
pottery if not actual Greeks) on Sardinia pre-date Phoenician
colonization, so a Greek inscription does not necessarily require
acceptance of the hypothesis that there was a Greek colony; the remains
of a colony, dated by material evidence to the 8th century, would of
course require acceptance of the hypothesis. An inscription isn't nearly
enough to confirm. R. J. Rowland, Jr.

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