45 - The Syllable DO : 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 45th posting in this series (which started here), and presents the Syllable DO 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 DO in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)

DO διαρροή "a channel pipe" Linear B symbols 15, 12 and 14 represent piping in the Minoan clay pipe plumbing system using symbols not unlike modern symbols for plumbing. δορίς "a special knife" used to skin, flay animals, δέρω Is DORIS Egyptian DS and Sumerian DAR2 ? Indo-European e.g. Latvian dur(is)- „stab(s)“ (durt);. caur „through“ show the common concept of „through“.

Cypriot Syllabary For the Cypriot DO see TO. Linear B Signs 15, 12 and 14 all have bent vertical holder lines and at that bend the symbols represent the midsection, channel and pipe in Minoan plumbing.

Linear B 𐀈(14) DO διαρροή represents the pipe in Minoan plumbing. Sign B34 may have a similar concept. (34)

Phaistos Disk 𐇠 DO δορίς "a special knife”, perhaps also used for cutting through leather, vines or shearing sheep? See Phaistos Disc at Wikipedia

No comparable Axe sign __________ An old cutting tool used in planting and caring for grape vines and vineyards (found at Wine Harvesting Antiques) which is similar in technological concept to the Cretan special knife.

No Elamite sign yet. _______ Sumerian Since Sumerian had no “O”, any comp- arable sign will have another vowel other than “O” in the word.

Sumerian DAR2 “shear, split” (Jaritz #892) Egyptian DS “knife” determinative “cut”