L2/04-057

From: Charles E. Jones
Date: 2004-02-01 00:44:26 -0800
To: Rick McGowan
Subject: Cuneiform

Dear Rick McGowan,

I am writing to express my support for the current version of a proposal
to add cuneiform to Unicode as expressed in the document at:
	http://psd.museum.upenn.edu/n2698-cuneiform.pdf

I have followed the discussion on the cuneiform@unicode mailing list
fairly carefully, and have read the available documentation, including
that produced by dissenting or minority opinions.

I belive the proposal authored by Everon/Feuerherm/Tinnney has a great
deal to offer to the field of cuneiform studies and I fully support it.

For the record, I am the Librarian of the Oriental Institute at the
University of Chicago; moderator of a number of e-lists focused on the
Ancient Near East; editor of Abzu: Guide to Resources for the Study of
the Ancient Near East Available on the Internet
[http:///www.etana.org/Abzu]; Founding member of ETANA
[http:///www.etana.org]; co-editor of the Oriental Institute's
web-presence [http://www-oi.uchicago.edu]; member of the steering
committee of Achemenet [http://www.achemenet.com]; and co-editor
of the electronic corpus of the  texts from the Persepolis Fortification
Tablets - a component of XSTAR
[http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/XSTAR/XSTAR.html].
Each of these projects would benefit from a successful and timely
resolution to this process.

Yours,

-Chuck Jones-

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