57 - The Syllable GA : 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 57th posting in this series (which started here), and presents the Syllable GA 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 GA in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)

ΓΑ GA γαῖα "land" αἴξ , αἰγός "goat" Two primary concepts are found here for the GA syllable, one a term for land parcel and the other a term for goat. (It is unclear to my zoologically untrained eye whether the Egyptian hieroglyph is an antelope or gazelle) The Cypriot sign looks like an abstraction of an animal with two horns

Cypriot syllabary �� GA αἴγειος Logically in this context an abstract goat with horns.

Linear B Currently read as JA ��(57) GA γαῖα "land" land parcel γύης2 “a piece of land”

Phaistos Disk GA αἴγειος "of a goat" Egyptian Ancient Egyptian bestiary at André Dollinger

No comparable Axe sign _______ Cretan Goat by Mtiedemann Wikimedia Commons Kri-kri (Capra aegagrus creticus), Cretan Ibex see Wikipedia: native to the Eastern Mediterranean, now almost only on Crete

No Elamite sign yet. _______ Egyptian SCHSA Gardiner F6 antelope ? gHs gazelle ? Indo- European e.g. Latvian kaza “goat”

Sumerian (Jaritz #840) GANA “field; area (geometric figure)” KA5 (“billy-goat”) (Jaritz #657)