Thursday, February 17, 2011

55 - The Syllable KO: 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 55th posting in this series (which started here), and presents the Syllable KO 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 KO in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)


KO
“gnat, mosquito”
Phaistos Disk: Is this
Heteroptera: could be
 Cretan Soldier Beetle
Lygaeus saxatilis viz. the
German soldier beetle
Lygaeus equestris, or
Graphosoma creticum
"striped shield bug" or
Eurydema "shield bug"
or just "bug" generally
Indo-European e.g.
Latvian kukainis “bug”
Cypriot
Syllabary

𐠎
KU
“gnat,
mosquito”

(Exchange
Cypriot KO and
KU values?)
LInear B


𐀒(70)

KO

“gnat,
mosquito”

Phaistos Disk


𐇱

KO


but also
“insect.
No comparable Axe sign
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Thumb of photo by Chris
Schuster of Lygaeus
saxatilis . Note the
apparent "tail".

More photos at
No Elamite
sign yet.
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Thumb of
Lygaeus
equestris
at
Sumerian
KUIA
KuSu2
UH3
“insect, bug”

The sign is ½
of Cypriot
and Phaistos
signs.