INTRODUCTION TO LEVEL 3

In level 2 we saw that what evidently is the same text (week, year) has been written differently on different tablets. This raises the question whether these different versions should be read differently too, or whether they should be treated as due to different writers only, idiosyncrasy.

In order to avoid this problem I have decided (here on this level) to concentrate my attention on the texts in one tablet only, the tablet called Keiti. I believe the text on Keiti has been carved by one person only.

On this level I will begin to put in question much of what we have arrived at earlier. This is a necessary way of advancing, i.e. first to make quick easy maps, then to test what might be wrong in them.

Presumably this will create confusion and I therefore plan to document in an ordered way (at a coming level) those parts of the 'maps' which have survived so far.

Already at this level, though, the amount of information is becoming so large, that we need an index as a help when searching among all the pages. By using the 'search'-function in Microsoft Word it is then easy to locate where a word is used.