Friday, February 11, 2011

45 - The Syllable DO : 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

This is the 45th posting in this series (which started here), and presents the Syllable DO in the Syllabic Grid. Each syllable is presented in its own posting.

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

That image is followed by the original text -- the links there are clickable -- but you can not see the Aegean Fonts or images embedded in Microsoft Word, as these do not resolve in Blogger, so you will see some "filler" material. After I get all the syllables online, I will clean up the individual pages by making images of the various signs and uploading them to eliminate the current text resolution deficiencies, but it is a massive amount of tedious extra graphics work, so I am not doing it right now, as it is not essential for online purposes. One can see the full grid for the syllable on the scanned image.




The Syllable DO in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)

DO
"a channel pipe"
Linear B symbols 15,
12 and 14 represent
piping in the Minoan
system using symbols
not unlike modern
symbols for plumbing.
δορίς "a special knife"
used to skin, flay
animals, δέρω
Is DORIS Egyptian DS
and Sumerian DAR2 ?
Indo-European e.g.
Latvian dur(is)- „stab(s)“
(durt);. caur „through“
show the common
concept of „through“.
Cypriot
Syllabary

For the Cypriot
DO
see TO.

Linear B
Signs 15, 12
and 14 all have
bent vertical
holder lines
and at that
bend the
symbols
represent the
midsection,
channel and
pipe in Minoan
plumbing.
Linear B

𐀈(14)
DO

represents the
pipe in Minoan
plumbing.
Sign B34 may
have a similar
concept.
(34)
Phaistos Disk

𐇠
DO
"a special
knife”,
perhaps also
used for
cutting
through
leather, vines
or shearing
sheep?
See
at Wikipedia
No comparable Axe sign
__________


An old cutting tool used
in planting and caring for
grape vines and
vineyards (found at
which is similar in
technological concept to
the Cretan special knife.
No Elamite
sign yet.

_______




Sumerian
Since
Sumerian
had no “O”,
any comp-
arable sign
will have
another
vowel
other than
“O” in
the
word.
Sumerian

DAR2
“shear, split”


Egyptian
DS
knife
determinative
“cut”