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[Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>]

  Part of Yigal's latest post was quoted as  follows:
 
  > g. So - in giving this ostracon to a professional epigrapher such as Hagai
> Misgav, the excavators did the right thing. In refusing to offer even a
> priliminary reading befor completing all of the relevant tests, Misgav did
> the right thing. I assure you that as soon as a reliable reading can be
> published, it will be. Until that time, anything that anyone says about the
> inscription is probably nonsense.

I agree, and the little information that was publicized (such as in Prof.
Garfinkel's interview on Israeli television) where he discussed only a
handful of words is the best they have in any case at the moment.

Yitzhak Sapir
 
 It gives me  pleasure to agree with the agreement of the writer. Yigal's 
conclusion 
is obvious.
 
  What I don't understand is why Yitzhak Sapir nevertheless speculated in 
another list more than once about that which by his own judgement cannot be 
read with confidence, much less deciphered.
 
  Uri Hurwitz                                                             
Great Neck, NY
 

 
 
  



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On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Uri Hurwitz wrote:

>  It gives me  pleasure to agree with the agreement of the writer. Yigal's 
> conclusion
> is obvious.
>
>   What I don't understand is why Yitzhak Sapir nevertheless speculated in 
> another list more than once about that
> which by his own judgement cannot be read with confidence, much less 
> deciphered.
>
>   Uri Hurwitz                                                             
> Great Neck, NY

You are misrepresenting what I said and if you have a problem with
what I said elsewhere, and I'm assuming here you read
all of what I wrote on the matter on other lists, please quote the
relevant part and raise your objections there.

Best,
Yitzhak Sapir