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

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

(continued from ZA 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 ZE originally published at 63 - The Syllable ZE : 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 at update 63A.

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 ZE plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)

ZE Signs  here are either measuring sticks or the seed heads of wheat which look similar to a marked measuring stick. ζειά “Einkorn” triticum monococcum There is overlap with geo- and the syllable GE, indicating several terms for “Earth” in use. Normally expected might be γεωμετρέω (geometry – “earth measure“) but one sees that there was also a Z- syllable term such as in ζείδωρος "epithet of the earth", viz. Sumerian zikura “Earth”. Strabo for “measure a country” has χωρμετρέω. Compare γεόομαι “to become Earth” with Latvian zeme, Lithuanian žeme, Old Prussian semme “Earth”

Cypriot syllabary No Cypriot sign known. _______ Egyptian The Djed Pillar is associated with Memphis, the Summer Solstice and immortality and ostensibly measures the 3 or 4 seasons (it varies) as symbols of life. (for more observations see columns right) Egyptian See also my discussion online of the Nomes of Egypt

Linear B � �(74) ZE measuring stick (the semi-circle could represent any number of things: water itself or perhaps a plumb for measuring the depth of water Sumerian ŠE “grain, barley” (Jaritz #669)

Phaistos Disk � � ZE ζειά “Einkorn” triticum monococcum Sumerian ZIZ “emmer wheat” Egyptian ZWT “wheat”

No comparable Axe sign __________ Example of an Egyptian Nilometer, here somewhat idealized versus the original source Nilometer (idealized) based on an illustration at WaterHistory.org Jnbw-n-JTY gnomon at Memphis R. Hannig DJED The Djed Pillar

Elamite ZE measuring stick with markings Luvian I ZI "horizon, boundary" _______ Did Sumerian sign below precede Egyptian DJED? ZA4 (Jaritz 133)

Sumerian ZE Patrick C. Ryan at ProtoLanguage- Monosyllables writes "stick with pennant stuck upright in water, used as a height- marker for its rising" (Jaritz #130) Sumerian ZAG “boundary, border”