[gothic-l] Rune Ring of Pietroassa

[Bertil Häggman]

Andreas,

Yes, I am convinced that Reichert is correct
and is the latest interpretation. Thanks for the
info.

Gothically

Bertil

> the difference between Reichert´s scrutiny in 1992 and Elisabeth 
> Svärdström´s in 1970 is that Svärdström had only some 
> photographs to
> work on, whereas Reichert was allowed to take a silicon imprint of 
> the
> ring done professionally by two archeologists accompanying him, 
> Falko
> Daim and Gabriele Gattringer, who also took a series of 
> photographs
> allowing to form stereometric pictures of the inscription . The
> archeologists also made a replica of the ring from the silicon imprint
> and so they could work on this material not just during the visit to
> the museum at Bucarest, but with all the technical equipment they 
> have at their
> institute at Vienna University. So apart from Ingemar´s arguments,
> there are also a lot of technical reasons extensively given in
> Reichert´s essay, why there cannot have been an "o" in the
> inscription. 



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