43 - The Syllable DE : 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 43rd posting in this series (which started here), and presents the Syllable DE 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 DE in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)

DE διά- διάγω "passage, pass through, cut through”" Two types of signs seem to have been used for the concept of “pass through”, “cut through”: One type are wine- siphoning apparatus viz. wine or other liquid transfer apparatus and the other type is the dagger or knife. The Phaistos Disk dagger sign might be retained in Linear B sign B91, a dagger-shaped object for the concept of “two, but that seems very speculative Sumerian GIR(I) should perhaps be TSIR- as in Indo-European e.g. Latvian CER- viz. CIR- "cut" and used to describe "cutting (tools)"

Cypriot Syllabary For the Cypriot sign DE see TE. Ancient Egypt Image found at TourEgypt.net. Apparatus for siphoning wine in Ancient Egypt. The apparatus is similar to Linear B signs B 44 (KE)and B 45 (DE). See the syllable KE on this grid for a larger image.

Linear B 𐀆(45) DE διάβασις "pass through” wine or other liquid transfer apparatus (see column left)

Phaistos Disk 𐇟 DE διά-" διακόπτω "to cut through"

No comparable Axe sign Thumb of image of a small sword viz. dagger found at Malia, Crete. Image found at salimbeti.com at Greek Age of Bronze: Swords/Daggers. It is dated to ca. 1700 B.C.

Elamite DE

Sumerian GIR(I) "to cut, dagger" (Jaritz #011) Egyptian TP "dagger" (archaic)