Sketching a dogg with flippy-over ears.

[pseudomonas]

Since hatam_soferet has a very pretty dogg, I had a go at sketching her (from a video that hatam_soferet put online) with my nice sepia-coloured ink and lovely drawing nib. Click to embiggen.

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[pseudomonas]

There was also some confusion with the Linear B - they had some latin in with the transliteration. It turns out the ideograms have Latin names - so in this case "VIR" refers to the ideogram for a man, and is not some unexpected Greek cognate.

[lethargic_man]

My book uses vir and homo to distinguish the two words for "man" (zikaru (i.e. זָכָר) and amelu respectively). It's what the nineteenth-century scholars who worked it out would have been familiar with.

[pseudomonas]

Oh, sure, but the text on the exhibit didn't make clear that the VIR wasn't being transcribed but was an atomic ideogram (𐂀). I think it should've been in square brackets or something, for the benefit of uninformed museum visitors like me.