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Sunday, March 06, 2011

Syllabic Grid of Ancient Scripts: KE Luvian Update to the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance MinAegCon by Andis Kaulins

Syllabic Grid of Ancient Scripts: KE Luvian Update to the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance MinAegCon by Andis Kaulins

Note:
Hatti is surely Kheta, as the Luvian sign read as HÁ is likely KE (viz. KĀ). 

(continued from KA Luvian Update)

This posting updates the series started here by adding Luvian (also spelled Luwian, formerly Hieroglyphic Hittite) to the syllabic grid for the syllable KE originally published at 53 - The Syllable KE : 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 

and the update at 53A.

If I have found no comparable Luvian syllable in mainstream sources, there is no update posting for that syllable. This applies particularly to syllables with the vowel "O", which predecessor Sumerian did not have (apparently also not in Luvian). Syllables with the vowel "E" are alleged by Luvian scholars not to have been used for Luvian, though I think otherwise. My research indicates that also Luvian had "consonant plus vowel E" (or similar sound) syllables and I include them if I have been able to identify them (provisionally, of course, subject to ultimate confirmation).

Each syllable will be presented in its own posting.

There is first a scanned image of a "syllabic" grid excerpt from the original Microsoft Word manuscript -- the links there are not clickable because it is one image.

The original text follows -- the links there are clickable -- but embedded fonts or images may be missing because Blogger does not pick them all up from Microsoft Word, so use the scanned image for those.



The Syllable KE plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)

KE
κέλευθος “passage”
The Linear B signs B44
(KE) and B45 (DE) are
similar to the following
siphon apparatus used
to collect (“in passage”)
fermented wine or
brewed beer in Ancient
Egypt. It is part of a
larger installation found
below at a thumb of an
image seen at
boatswain” is nearly
homophonic
Cypriot
syllabary



KE
This is the oar
and boat sign
plus a rudder.

It can thus
only represent
boatswain,
who gives the
time to the
rowers
which is a
nearly
homophonic
term with
"passage"
Linear B



(44)
KE
"passage"
See discussion
in the first
column

Winepress
Modern
German
KELTER for
wine

Luvian Kheta
Are the Luvian
Kheta (Khelta)
the later so-
called Kaldu,
Phaistos Disk


KE

"cedar tree"

The cedar
may be
connected to
objects in
other KE
syllabary
signs in
logical
concept as
the particular
wood out of
which they
were made.
Cedar was
used to make
boats.
No comparable Axe sign
_______

3 related signs of the
Cypriot Syllabary

RI
"rowers, oars"

NI
"boat"
the water surface is the horizontal line

KE
“boatswain – rudderer”
No Elamite
sign yet
_______

Egyptian

“beer”
hQT
incorrectly transliterated
The correct hieroglyph
reading is
LO-KELTE
ale KElter”
(“passage”) = fluid brewing.
Sumerian
KURUN
QAR
GAR2
KAR3
Said to be
“hair” but
perhaps an
apparatus as
in 1st column

Luvian
h