Tuesday, January 11, 2011

20 - The Syllable RU : Origins of Writing in Western Civilization and the Kaulins Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (MinAegCon™): A Syllabic Grid of Mycenaean Greek Linear B Script, the Cypriot Syllabary, the Phaistos Disk, two Old Elamite Scripts, the Inscription on the Axe of Arkalochori, and Comparable Signs from Sumerian Pictographs and Egyptian Hieroglyphs

This is the 20th posting in this series (which started here), and presents the Syllable RU in the Syllabic Grid. Each syllable is presented in its own posting.

There is first a scan of a "syllabic" table excerpt from the original Microsoft Word manuscript -- the links there are not clickable because it is one image.

That image is followed by the original text -- the links there are clickable -- but you can not see the Aegean Fonts or images embedded in Microsoft Word, as these do not resolve in Blogger, so you will see "a ? ? filler".


The Syllable RU in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)

Syllabic Value of
the Sign (Symbol)
(there was no
universally established
AEIOU vowel system yet
in this era, and there
were dipthongs, so that
a strict AEIOU system
here is a bit misleading)
Cypriot
Syllabary
signs from the
(Unicode
Character Map
for Windows)
(Ventris &
followers)
(standard
Bennet
numbers in
parentheses)
(Kaulins)
(first
deciphered
by him in the
years 1978-
1980)
Axe of
Arkalochori
(Kaulins)
(these same basic signs
are also on the Phaistos
Disk). This column also
provides explanatory
photo images for various
Minoan symbols
Elamite
Script
(Kaulins)
(same basic
signs as the
Phaistos
Disk -  see
Sumerian
Pictographs
and/or
Egyptian
Hieroglyphs
and/or sign
commentary
on individual
symbols
RU

The vertical line in
Linear B is a "holder" for
two arms reaching out.
A sign like this was
easier to draw than the
hand as on the Phaistos
Disk and the Axe
of Arkalochori. That the
Cypriot syllabary likely
shows two arms is seen
from the Cypriot sign SU
as man/arm (extension).
See Cypriot SU: ��
Cypriot syllabary:

��
RU
Linear B

��
(26)
RU
"(arms)
reach out"
Phaistos Disk

��
RU
"hand" “fist”
Archaic Indo
European
once had one
word only for
both arm and
hand e.g.
Latvian roka
The Axe of Arkalochori
��
RU
The standard sign is
reproduced from an
apparently faulty copy
of the Axe. Redrawn
from an original photo,
it is correctly "hand":
arkalochori fingers hand
No Elamite sign yet.

Thumb of
"The hand"
by Cheryl
B. at
Katherine
Hilde shows
hand
variations in
drawing.
Sumerian
RU
give by hand
Hieroglyphs
 
RDJ

Monday, January 10, 2011

19 - The Syllable RO : Origins of Writing in Western Civilization and the Kaulins Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (MinAegCon™): A Syllabic Grid of Mycenaean Greek Linear B Script, the Cypriot Syllabary, the Phaistos Disk, two Old Elamite Scripts, the Inscription on the Axe of Arkalochori, and Comparable Signs from Sumerian Pictographs and Egyptian Hieroglyphs

This is the 19th posting in this series (which started here), and presents the Syllable RO in the Syllabic Grid. Each syllable is presented in its own posting.

There is first a scan of a "syllabic" table excerpt from the original Microsoft Word manuscript -- the links there are not clickable because it is one image.

That image is followed by the original text -- the links there are clickable -- but you can not see the Aegean Fonts or images embedded in Microsoft Word, as these do not resolve in Blogger, so you will see "a ? ? filler".


The Syllable RO in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)

RO
The Linear B symbol B68
could be an abstract
representation of an oar
for rowing. Additional
Indo-European terms
for English "oar" are:
Norwegian: åre,
Icelandic ár
Swedish åra,
Estonian aer,
Finnish airo,
Latvian airis, and
Lithuanian iriu "to row".
The clear logic of the
Cypriot signs “boat” and
“oar” confirm this
analysis internally.
See also the syllable NE.
Cypriot
syllabary:
𐠥
RI
"rowers, oars"
𐠛
NI
"boat"
water surface is horizontal (see also KE)
Linear B

𐁊 (68)
RYO
R02

"oar"

"row"

Phaistos Disk
no similar
sign.



Egyptian
hieroglyph Gardiner #P8
hRw
The Axe of Arkalochori.
󿼀
RO
Either an arrow, spear
or an oar (most likely).
(read also to the right)
Minoan boat fresco with
rowers (from the
Wikimedia Commons
No Elamite
sign yet


If an arrow,
see this
iron one
from Crete.

Russ. vesló
SAL same
as Slavic
term for
oar
Sumerian
RO
“rim”
Halloran:
to strike
repetitively
-like an oar-
Sumerian
”oar”
(ŋiš) SAL

18 - The Syllable RI : Origins of Writing in Western Civilization and the Kaulins Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (MinAegCon™): A Syllabic Grid of Mycenaean Greek Linear B Script, the Cypriot Syllabary, the Phaistos Disk, two Old Elamite Scripts, the Inscription on the Axe of Arkalochori, and Comparable Signs from Sumerian Pictographs and Egyptian Hieroglyphs

This is the 18th posting in this series (which started here), and presents the Syllable RI in the Syllabic Grid. Each syllable is presented in its own posting.

There is first a scan of a "syllabic" table excerpt from the original Microsoft Word manuscript -- the links there are not clickable because it is one image.

That image is followed by the original text -- the links there are clickable -- but you can not see the Aegean Fonts or images embedded in Microsoft Word, as these do not resolve in Blogger, so you will see "a ? ? filler".


The Syllable RI in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)

Syllabic Value of
the Sign (Symbol)
(there was no
universally established
AEIOU vowel system yet
in this era, and there
were dipthongs, so that
a strict AEIOU system
here is a bit misleading)
Cypriot
Syllabary
signs from the
(Unicode
Character Map
for Windows)
(Ventris &
followers)
(standard
Bennet
numbers in
parentheses)
(Kaulins)
(first
deciphered
by him in the
years 1978-
1980)
Axe of
Arkalochori
(Kaulins)
(these same basic signs
are also on the Phaistos
Disk). This column also
provides explanatory
photo images for various
Minoan symbols
Elamite
Script
(Kaulins)
(same basic
signs as the
Phaistos
Disk -  see
Sumerian
Pictographs
and/or
Egyptian
Hieroglyphs
and/or sign
commentary
on individual
symbols
RI rhy

Most of the signs are a
υτόνrhyton”,a
container for fluids,
while the Phaistos Disk
has a sign I mistook 30
years ago for a plant
leaf but which is actually
a plant root, a rhizome,
ίζωμα viz. the
simpler Greek ιζόω
“to plant, strike root”.
Cypriot syllabary:
��
RO
(Must RI and
RO values, not
the signs as
placed, be
exchanged in
the Cypriotic?)
Linear B

��(53)
RI

on a
table-like
support.
Phaistos Disk

��
RI
Mistaken as a
plant leaf but
actually a
plant root,
rhizome.
No similar sign on Axe


For Linear B, the current
"The r-series includes ...
the /r/ and /l/
phonemes: ti-ri-po for
tripos (τρίπος) & tu-ri-so
for Tuliso (Τυλισός)."
That view is clearly
incorrect. Both /R/ and
/L/ phonemes existed in
Linear B.
No Elamite sign yet.

rhyton,
Aghia
Triada,
Sumerian

IRIG
“conical oil
container”
voluminous

17 - The Syllable RE : Origins of Writing in Western Civilization and the Kaulins Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (MinAegCon™): A Syllabic Grid of Mycenaean Greek Linear B Script, the Cypriot Syllabary, the Phaistos Disk, two Old Elamite Scripts, the Inscription on the Axe of Arkalochori, and Comparable Signs from Sumerian Pictographs and Egyptian Hieroglyphs

This is the 17th posting in this series (which started here), and presents the Syllable RE in the Syllabic Grid. Each syllable is presented in its own posting.

There is first a scan of a "syllabic" table excerpt from the original Microsoft Word manuscript -- the links there are not clickable because it is one image.

That image is followed by the original text -- the links there are clickable -- but you can not see the Aegean Fonts or images embedded in Microsoft Word, as these do not resolve in Blogger, so you will see "a ? ? filler".



The Syllable RE in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)

Syllabic Value of
the Sign (Symbol)
(there was no
universally established
AEIOU vowel system yet
in this era, and there
were dipthongs, so that
a strict AEIOU system
here is a bit misleading)
Cypriot
Syllabary
signs from the
(Unicode
Character Map
for Windows)
(Ventris &
followers)
(standard
Bennet
numbers in
parentheses)
(Kaulins)
(first
deciphered
by him in the
years 1978-
1980)
Axe of
Arkalochori
(Kaulins)
(these same basic signs
are also on the Phaistos
Disk). This column also
provides explanatory
photo images for various
Minoan symbols
Elamite
Script
(Kaulins)
(same basic
signs as the
Phaistos
Disk -  see
Sumerian
Pictographs
and/or
Egyptian
Hieroglyphs
and/or sign
commentary
on individual
symbols
RE
έα (Rhea) όα

com (Kris Hirst) writes:
"The pomegranate … is
 a native plant of the
 middle east, most likely
 Iran ... domesticated in
various places…
beginning about 3500
BC…. [P]omegranate
shaped  vases have
been found  at Phaistos
and Knossos on Crete
period (ca 18th century
BC)".

Cypriot syllabary

𐠤
RE

not only are
served as an
important
Aegean food
but also had
symbolic
fertility value.
Linear B

𐁈(76)
RYA
RA2
pomegranate
tree(s) pruned,
with trellis?
Wikipedia:
RU+JA seen as
pomegranate
Phaistos Disk

𐇺
RE

A wedge of
pomegranate

"knob ...like a
pomegranate.
... tassel of
 like shape"
No similar sign on Axe


Image above found at
shows the triangular cut
of the pomegranate
pieces – that is the sign
on the Phaistos Disk.
Elamite

RE

"halter"
A horse
collar or
oxbow.

IR acc. to
one source.
Sumerian
RU8
or LAL3
The pome-
granate is
not lal3-dar
but rhea-dar
DAR may be
"agriculture"
Latv. dārzā
"garden" loc.

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