(continued from LE 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 LI originally published at 49 - The Syllable LI : 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 updated at posting 49A.
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 LI plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)
LI The Phaistos Disk has a sign of the osprey or sea eagle, in archaic Greek called ἁλιάετος and in Linear B an abstracted sign of talons, beak and wings. Considered for Linear B but discarded was the alternative of a flower like the Madonna lily among the most ancient cultivated ornamental the most frequent floral motif of Minoan art... the sacred flower... | Cypriot syllabary � � LI The sign is a bird in the air with the line below the wing element representing the ground, i.e. the earth, as in other signs. | Linear B Is read as RAI in error (33) LI an abstracted sign of talons, beak and wings. In Linear B, hence not E-RAI-WO but E-LAI-WO for ἔλαιον "olive oil". | Phaistos Disk � � LI archaic "sea eagle, osprey" On the south coast, near Matala, you can find ospreys." (continue at column right) | No comparable Axe sign __________ "In Minoan times, Matala was most likely the port for the Palace of Phaistos, which is about 10 km north of Luvian variants or ARI | Elamite LI Abstracted drawing of a bird wing, talon & prey, with sky at line. Luvian J LI perhaps a bird wing | Sumerian LID or LIT beak head ? & LA2 Egyptian A? |
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