(continued from RA 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 RE originally published at 17 - The Syllable RE : 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.
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 RE plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)
RE com (Kris Hirst) writes: "The pomegranate … is a native plant of the middle east, most likely Iran ... domesticated in various places… beginning about 3500 BC…. pomegranate shaped vases have been found at Phaistos and Knossos on Crete by the Middle Minoan period (ca 18th century BC)". | Cypriot syllabary � � RE not only are served as an important Aegean food but also had symbolic fertility value. | Linear B � �(76) RYA RA2 pomegranate tree(s) pruned, with trellis? RU+JA seen as pomegranate in Linear A | Phaistos Disk � � RE A wedge of pomegranate "knob ...like a pomegranate. ... tassel of like shape" | No similar sign on Axe Image above found at shows the triangular cut of the pomegranate pieces – that is the sign on the Phaistos Disk. | Elamite RE "halter" collar or oxbow Luvian UR "magnus" rex | Sumerian RU8 or LAL3 Not lal3-dar but rhea-dar DAR may be "agriculture" e.g. Latvian dārzā "garden" loc. |