(continued from Luvian posting and from 66 - Vowels and W-Based Syllables)
This posting updates the series started here by adding Luvian (also spelled Luwian, formerly Hieroglyphic Hittite) to the syllabic grid for the syllable PA originally published at 11 - The Syllable PA : 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.
My intention to reduce the number of postings has not proven possible of implementation, so that the following postings -- syllable by syllable -- now serve to "update" the syllabic grid as initially posted.
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 PA in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)
(the idea of the design of this syllabic grid is to condense visibly the most important material so it can be visually appreciated)
TABLE I
TABLE OF SIGN CONCORDANCE: CYPRIAN, LINEAR B, PHAISTOS DISK, AXE OF ARKALOCHORI, OLD ELAMITE, SUMERIAN, EGYPTIAN, LUVIAN
A Table of the Sign Concordance of: 1) The Cypriot Syllabary, 2) Linear B -- Michael Ventris and John Chadwick, 3) the Phaistos Disk -- Andis Kaulins, 4) the Axe of Arkalochori -- Andis Kaulins, 5) Old Elamite Script -- Andis Kaulins, and Luvian 6) Sumerian & Egyptian Glyphs
A Table of the Sign Concordance of: 1) The Cypriot Syllabary, 2) Linear B -- Michael Ventris and John Chadwick, 3) the Phaistos Disk -- Andis Kaulins, 4) the Axe of Arkalochori -- Andis Kaulins, 5) Old Elamite Script -- Andis Kaulins, and Luvian 6) Sumerian & Egyptian Glyphs
Syllabic Value of the Sign (Symbol) (there was no universally established AEIOU vowel system yet in this era, and there were dipthongs, so that a strict AEIOU system here is a bit misleading) | Cypriot Syllabary signs from the (Unicode Character Map for Windows) | (Ventris & followers) (standard Bennett numbers in parentheses) | (Kaulins) (deciphered initially 1978 to 1980 by Andis Kaulins in Germany) | Axe of Arkalochori (Kaulins) (few signs) Empty space in any column is used for comments on any other source, syllabic system, sign or languag | (Kaulins) Luvian Syllabograms Logograms | Sumerian Pictographs and/or Egyptian Hieroglyphs and/or sign commentary on individual symbols |
PA (and BA ?) In Linear B, sign B03 has been assigned a value of PA and sign B16 was originally assigned a value of PA2, correctly BA, but later changed in error to QA. The first word on the Axe of Arkalochori is βασιλεύς, thus negating in Linear B the transcription qa-si-re-u which is correctly ba-si-leu-s. In Linear B signs, the meaning is often not the vertical line but usually the other sign elements. In B16 it is an abstract head with ears placed at the top of the vertical. | Cypriot syllabary � � PA Cypriot syllabary � � PU "scraping tool" scraper above & line as earth viz. the ground | Linear B � �(03) PA Linear B � �(16) Sign B16 once read as PA2, now read in error as QA. Correct is BA | � � PA Some think this to be the people of Keftiu, Crete. Possible also is "warrior" Thracian "peltast" later Greek ὁπ[o]λίτης hoplitēs | The Axe of Arkalochori (2 drawing variants) � �or� � PA Warrior image found at William H. Stiebing, Jr., Peoples, Bibl. Arch. Review, suggesting a warrior sign origin | PA Luvian µ PA PARI tongue for "talk" Indo-Eur. e.g. Latvian "voice" balsot "to voice" | PAR2 BAR "sharp tool, pick, head?" PA2 BA "division, scraper" _______ Sumerian "talk" |
[1] The Peleset are listed in the hieroglyphs of Egypt among the so-called Sea Peoples. These hieroglyphs are reproduced below from the Wikipedia. The erroneous mainstream scholarship reading of those Egyptian hieroglyphs is n3 ḫ3t.w n p3 ym (try pronouncing that artificial notation !), allegedly meaning "Sea Peoples" or "People of Foreign Lands". The hieroglyphs are followed by a list of ethnic names. My reading of those same hieroglyphs shows the corrected reading to result in terms strikingly similar to Greek. Ponder what the following hieroglyphic readings tell us about Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs in terms of Ancient Greek connections generally.
n3 ḫ3t.w n p3 ym
An- thro- po- n- y- my hydro (or) naiya peir-aikos (peir-as)
= Names of peoples of the border countries beyond the limit (mouth) of the Nile.
Note: The Nile: in Ancient Egyptian iteru or Ḥ'pī [Latvian upe "river], Coptic piaro (Sahidic) or phiaro (Bohairic).
The Egyptian hieroglyph for the Mediterranean is (in my reading ἀέξω (αὔξω) εὐρεῖα naiya peiras viz. ἀέξω εὐρεῖα nama/hydro peiras meaning "great wide river limit" viz. "mouth of the Nile") and for the Nile is [ (hydro) which is the same as Greek ὕδωρ "udro-, hydro, water" viz. νᾶμα "nama" or naiya (Ναιάς). Nama in Greek means anything flowing, running water, stream, spring, and could have the same N-root as Greek Νεῖλος for "Nile" as in ὕδος τὸ Νείλου, to which compare Arabic: النيل, an-nīl. The N- root is retained in English in naval, nautical and nymph (Ναιάς), Finnish nevo "sea", Swedish ny "new river", and Russian Neva.
One can see clearly from the "Sea Peoples" hieroglyph that the term anthro- derived from *ana-terra, in Greek *ana- *xer- i.e. χέρσος.
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