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

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

(continued from NA 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 NE originally published at 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.

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 NE plus Luvian 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 boat hull Luvian f NA Halet Çambel N “N” boat and mast

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