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Thursday, February 10, 2011

40 - The Syllable TO : 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 40th posting in this series (which started here), and presents the Syllable TO 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 TO in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)

TO
The signs are irrigation
ditches viz. trenches.
The vertical in Linear B
holds up the operative 2
upper lines represent-
ing an irrigation trench
or irrigation trench.

The Cypriot syllabary is
said by mainstream
scholars to apparently
not distinguish D, T and
TH, but I withhold final
judgment on that issue.

Cypriot
syllabary

𐠰
TO
Two of the five
“T-syllable”
Cypriot signs,
better match
D-based signs
in e.g. Linear B.
Linear B


𐀵(05)
TO


"irrigation
ditch, trench"
Phaistos Disk


𐇼
TO


"irrigation
ditch,
trench"
No comparable Axe sign
__________



Irrigation image at
Elamite


TO


irrigation
ditch(es)
water-
course
Sumerian

GUD6

Egyptian
tA
“irrigated”