18 - The Syllable RI : 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 18th posting in this series (which started here), and presents the Syllable RI 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 RI 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
RI rhy Most of the signs are a ῥυτόν “rhyton”,a container for fluids, while the Phaistos Disk has a sign I mistook 30 years ago for a plant leaf but which is actually a plant root, a rhizome, ῥίζωμα viz. the simpler Greek ῥιζόω “to plant, strike root”.	Cypriot syllabary: �� RO (Must RI and RO values, not the signs as placed, be exchanged in the Cypriotic?)	Linear B ��(53) RI A rhyton on a table-like support.	Phaistos Disk �� RI Mistaken as a plant leaf but actually a plant root, ῥίζωμα rhizome.	No similar sign on Axe For Linear B, the current linguistic view is that: "The r-series includes ... the /r/ and /l/ phonemes: ti-ri-po for tripos (τρίπος) & tu-ri-so for Tuliso (Τυλισός)." That view is clearly incorrect. Both /R/ and /L/ phonemes existed in Linear B.	No Elamite sign yet. ῥυτόν rhyton, Aghia Triada, Heraklion Museum	Sumerian IRIG (Jaritz #457) “conical oil container” IRI or IRIG voluminous