Horse leavings at Troy

From Drudge Report 'an Jerusalem Post 'an Greek Reporter: "Boston University professors" Christine Morris and Chris Wilson are claiming they have found The Horse. That link has a date: 6 November 2014; found it on DuckDuckGo.

Part of their evidence is an inscription For their return home, the Greeks dedicate this offering to Athena. The article doesn't say what script it was in, but - they say - the offering was legible to Quintus Smyrnaeus. Which is telling me: it's Greek. Attic Greek - who else is dedicating stuff to Athene. If it were a Bronze Age inscription, this should be in Linear B - which no Greek could read anymore. Or maybe in Luwian hieroglyphic although I much doubt that a Smyrnaean of the classical era could still read that. Old Cypriote?

I believe a horse has left SOMETHING here, all right. I cannot find Morris nor Wilson in the BU Faculty page. Iiiinteresting; maybe they used to be there in 2014? I found a Dr Christine Morris in Trinity Ireland who does archaeology but, something tells me, she's uninvolved in all this.

Call it here and call it now: it's a froggery. It might not be a modern froggery, but ... a game of Frogger has been played, by somebody, and we're the marks.

I have no clue about Greek Reporter but I'll assume it's a rag. Shame on JPost which should know better, for not looking deeper.

READ THE COMMENTS 9:05 PM MST: hoo boy, they're a doozy. Apparently the whole thing was satire. A. HaLevi uncovered this nine hours ago. 28 September 2014 on the satirical tabloid site "The World News Daily Report", he says.

Anyway, I'd not be too surprised if some Athenaian businessman had set up a fake horse there in Antiquity. An earlier version of this blogpost mused about Morton Smith's interpolations into Mark's Gospel. They might not be Smith's; they might have been the Carpocratians'. But if there ever was a fake horse there, now we know the JPost isn't the venue to tell us. Now we know the JPost isn't a venue to tell us anything.

I feel really, really bad for Dr Morris right now.