33 - The Syllable NE : 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 33rd posting in this series (which started here), and presents the Syllable NE 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 some "filler" material. After I get all the syllables online, I will clean up the individual pages by making images of the various signs and uploading them to eliminate the current text resolution deficiencies, but it is a massive amount of tedious extra graphics work, so I am not doing it right now, as it is not essential for online purposes. One can see the full grid for the syllable on the scanned image.

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

NE (nau) The boat sign on the Axe of Arkalochori should be viewed horizontally....     thus showing this to be a boat, Greek ναῦς. Indeed, a retracing of a photograph of the original (not a copy) of the Axe of Arkalochori shows it is actually a sailboat as shown in column 5, and as proven   in an accompanying article to this grid inter alia discussing photos of the Axe. The sign is shown corrected in the 5th column to the right, above the ancient sailing vessel image.

Cypriot syllabary: �� NI ναῦς The line is the water surface. Is it possible that the syllabic values of some of the Cypriot  N- based signs must be exchanged? View also the symbol: �� RI "rowers, oars"

Linear B ��(24) NE ναῦς This is an easy sign to identify once one knows it is a boat. The vessel tops the vertical holding line, which need not have a sign meaning, but which here also appears to serve as the mast at its upper extension.

Phaistos Disk �� NE Greek ναῦς "boat, ship" The boats are turned vertically because of space limitations, also on original scripts. Proto-Indo- European *nau- "boat" See naval at the Online Etymological Dictionary

Axe of Arkalochori NE Image thumb from Art Knowledge News Smithsonian and Singapore Organize World Tour of Shipwreck Treasure shows replica of ancient sailboat that prior to the modern age sailed to Indonesia.

Elamite  NE The boat sign in Elamite is abstracted simply as a round hull. Sumerians Wikipedia: Sumerians had clinker- built sailboats, skin boats [of] animal skins and reeds and wooden- oared ships.

Sumerian NI2 “sail with rigging” (Jaritz #721) Egyptian NFW Gardiner P5 “sailor . NE Gardiner P1 determinative for n'.j “travel”