20 - The Syllable RU : 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 20th posting in this series (which started here), and presents the Syllable RU 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.

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The Syllable RU 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
RU The vertical line in Linear B is a "holder" for two arms reaching out. A sign like this was easier to draw than the hand as on the Phaistos Disk and the Axe of Arkalochori. That the Cypriot syllabary likely shows two arms is seen from the Cypriot sign SU as man/arm (extension). See Cypriot SU: ��	Cypriot syllabary: �� RU	Linear B �� (26) RU "(arms) reach out" ὀρέγω ὤρεγον ὀρωρέ- χαται	Phaistos Disk �� RU "hand" “fist” Archaic Indo European once had one word only for both arm and hand e.g. Latvian roka	The Axe of Arkalochori �� RU The standard sign is reproduced from an apparently faulty copy of the Axe. Redrawn from an original photo, it is correctly "hand":	No Elamite sign yet. Thumb of "The hand" by Cheryl B. at Artamaze Katherine Hilde shows hand variations in drawing.	Sumerian RU (Jaritz #111) Halloran: give by hand Hieroglyphs   RDJ “give, hand over, reach”

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.

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

RO 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. See also the syllable NE.

Cypriot syllabary: 𐠥 RI "rowers, oars" 𐠛 NI "boat" water surface is horizontal (see also KE)

Linear B 𐁊 (68) RYO R02 ἐρετ-μόν "oar" ἐρέσσω "row"

Phaistos Disk no similar sign. Egyptian hieroglyph Gardiner #P8 "oar" ancientegypt online.co.uk hRw

The Axe of Arkalochori. 󿼀 RO Either an arrow, spear or an oar (most likely). (read also to the right) Minoan boat fresco with rowers (from the Wikimedia Commons Thera / Santorini

No Elamite sign yet If an arrow, see this iron one from Crete. Azori Project unc.edu Russ. vesló SAL same as Slavic term for oar

Sumerian RO “rim” (Jaritz #834) Halloran: ra-ah: to strike repetitively -like an oar- Sumerian ”oar” (ŋiš) SAL (Jaritz #449)

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.

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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

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.

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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.