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Monday, January 10, 2011

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
(Unicode
Character Map
for Windows)
(Ventris &
followers)
(standard
Bennet
numbers in
parentheses)
(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
Sumerian
Pictographs
and/or
Egyptian
Hieroglyphs
and/or sign
commentary
on individual
symbols
RI rhy

Most of the signs are a
υτόνrhyton”,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,
ίζωμα viz. the
simpler Greek ιζόω
“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

on a
table-like
support.
Phaistos Disk

��
RI
Mistaken as a
plant leaf but
actually a
plant root,
rhizome.
No similar sign on Axe


For Linear B, the current
"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.

rhyton,
Aghia
Triada,
Sumerian

IRIG
“conical oil
container”
voluminous