27 - The Syllable MA : 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 27th posting in this series (which started here), and presents the Syllable MA 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 some "filler" material. After I get all the syllables online, I will clean up the individual pages by making images of the various signs and uploading them to eliminate the current text resolution deficiencies, but it is a massive amount of tedious extra graphics work, so I am not doing it right now, as it is not essential for online purposes. One can see the full grid for the syllable on the scanned image.

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

MA Archaic Greek ἄεμμα, ἅμμα, "bowstring, bow". Thumb of Greek Archer from the NYPL Digital Library

Cypriot syllabary 𐠔 MA a bow ? The vertically reversed sign is seen as WA -- the archer?

Linear B 𐀔(80)MA A bow drawn back. Outer lines mark the drawn bow, and two arcs the hand grip.

Phaistos Disk 𐇚 MA ἄεμμα ἅμμα (archaic Greek) "bowstring, bow"

No comparable Axe sign Drawn bow marked with lines of stress as on the Linear B sign. An Indo-European root for Pharaonic mšw is the Latvian meš-ana "throw(ing), hurl(ing)"

Elamite MA a bow

Sumerian MHE See Ryan Egyptian bow archer MSHA