Syllabic Grid of Ancient Scripts: ME Luvian Update to the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance MinAegCon by Andis Kaulins

Syllabic Grid of Ancient Scripts: ME Luvian Update to the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance MinAegCon by Andis Kaulins

(continued from MA Luvian Update)

This posting updates the series started here by adding Luvian (also spelled Luwian, formerly Hieroglyphic Hittite) to the syllabic grid for the syllable ME originally published at 28 - The Syllable ME : 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.

If I have found no comparable Luvian syllable in mainstream sources, there is no update posting for that syllable. This applies particularly to syllables with the vowel "O", which predecessor Sumerian did not have (apparently also not in Luvian). Syllables with the vowel "E" are alleged by Luvian scholars not to have been used for Luvian, though I think otherwise. My research indicates that also Luvian had "consonant plus vowel E" (or similar sound) syllables and I include them if I have been able to identify them (provisionally, of course, subject to ultimate confirmation).

Each syllable will be presented in its own posting.

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

The original text follows -- the links there are clickable -- but embedded fonts or images may be missing because Blogger does not pick them all up from Microsoft Word, so use the scanned image for those.

The Syllable ME plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)

ME A mace, staff, scepter, axe (in Ancient Egypt) was a symbol of power. Greek μέδω "rule(r)" μάχης "staff" Pharaonic mdw "axe" Hebrew matteh "staff". Many maces can be traced to maceheads in Luristan, Īlām Province, part of ancient Elam, 2nd millennium BC.

Cypriot syllabary: � � ME μέδω "ruler" μέγας "mighty"

Linear B � �(13) ME μέδω "rule(r)" μάχης "staff"

Phaistos Disk � � ME μέδω "rule(r)" μάχης "staff"

No comparable Axe sign Egyptian hieroglyphs The Gardiner T1 mace is MNW Stevenson, 2008, Mace.UEE while the axe is  MDW in two variants .

No Elamite sign yet. Luvian MAx MAX

Sumerian (no sign ?) MITUM2 MIDDU2 “mace” See Ryan at MHE Akkadian mašgašu “mace”