The table has many
gaps, and surely one could find other 'sequences' (e.g. all 'words'
beginning with 2-12 ) but we must think that the total amount
of signs is very limited ( 242 signs ).Given the brevity of the text it
is very difficult to associate contigous words: there is not possibility
to make a reasonable statistic work. Perhaps just the existence of so many
recurrences (see 31-26-12 ) could give an idea of contents
of the Disk: an apologetic one (celebration of a divine or human personality);
or a religious one : a reiteration of magic spells or of invocations
; or even of a diplomatic or political treaty, or a commercial one or conjugal..Maybe
just the sharpness of drawings could mean that the matrix were done 'only'
for this copy, only for this work and the text therefore should have been
very important.
The hypothesis about a political
treaty could be, i think, very useful for the translation: lists of geographical
places with possible correspondence to Linear B, classical greek or also
other languages spoken in the Mediterranean area, could become so successful
as they were for the deciphering of myceaean greek..
As an example: if we read
in the other direction sequences with repetition of a sign ( 2-12-27-27-35
in the A side and 29-24-24-20-35 in the B side ) these
could be transcriptions , in a writing system different from Linear
B, of the endings in -ssos of the names of some places like
Knossos and Halikarnassos, which many scholars think to be remains of a
language older then the Greek, the same which gave origin to words like
labyrinthos, asaminthos, Korinthos.
But in the last years this hypothesis also has been refused ... lot of confusion :) !
