Ancient World Blog: 19 - The Syllable RO : 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 19th posting in this series (which started here), and presents the Syllable RO 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 RO in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)

The Linear B symbol B68

could be an abstract

representation of an oar

for rowing. Additional

Indo-European terms

for English "oar" are:

Norwegian: åre,

Icelandic ár

Swedish åra,

Estonian aer,

Finnish airo,

Latvian airis, and

Lithuanian iriu "to row".

The clear logic of the

Cypriot signs “boat” and

“oar” confirm this

analysis internally.

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