17 - The Syllable RE : 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 17th posting in this series (which started here), and presents the Syllable RE 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 "a ? ? filler".

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

Syllabic Value of the Sign (Symbol) (there was no universally established AEIOU vowel system yet in this era, and there were dipthongs, so that a strict AEIOU system here is a bit misleading)	Cypriot Syllabary signs from the BabelMap (Unicode Character Map for Windows)	Linear B (Ventris & followers) (standard Bennet numbers in parentheses) Aegean Font	Phaistos Disk (Kaulins) (first deciphered by him in the years 1978- 1980)	Axe of Arkalochori (Kaulins) (these same basic signs are also on the Phaistos Disk). This column also provides explanatory photo images for various Minoan symbols	Elamite Script (Kaulins) (same basic signs as the Phaistos Disk -  see also here)	Sumerian Pictographs and/or Egyptian Hieroglyphs and/or sign commentary on individual symbols
RE Ῥέα (Rhea) ῥόα http://archaeology.about. com (Kris Hirst) writes: "The pomegranate … is  a native plant of the  middle east, most likely  Iran ... domesticated in various places… beginning about 3500 BC…. [P]omegranate shaped  vases have been found  at Phaistos and Knossos on Crete by the Middle Minoan period (ca 18th century BC)".	Cypriot syllabary 𐠤 RE ῥόα Pomegranates not only are served as an important Aegean food but also had symbolic fertility value.	Linear B 𐁈(76) RYA RA2 ῥόα pomegranate tree(s) pruned, with trellis? Wikipedia: Rhea (myth.): RU+JA seen as pomegranate in Linear A	Phaistos Disk 𐇺 RE ῥοώδης A wedge of pomegranate Liddell-Scott: "knob ...like a pomegranate. ... tassel of  like shape"	No similar sign on Axe ῥόα Image above found at http://rubyredpomegranates .co.uk/how-to-eat.html shows the triangular cut of the pomegranate pieces – that is the sign on the Phaistos Disk.	Elamite RE ἐώρα "halter" A horse collar or oxbow. IR acc. to one source.	Sumerian Jaritz #185 RU8 or LAL3 The pome- granate is not lal3-dar but rhea-dar DAR may be "agriculture" Latv. dārzā "garden" loc.