20 - The Syllable RU : 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 20th posting in this series (which started here), and presents the Syllable RU 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 "a ? ? filler".

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

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 BabelMap (Unicode Character Map for Windows)	Linear B (Ventris & followers) (standard Bennet numbers in parentheses) Aegean Font	Phaistos Disk (Kaulins) (first deciphered by him in the years 1978- 1980)	Axe of Arkalochori (Kaulins) (these same basic signs are also on the Phaistos Disk). This column also provides explanatory photo images for various Minoan symbols	Elamite Script (Kaulins) (same basic signs as the Phaistos Disk -  see also here)	Sumerian Pictographs and/or Egyptian Hieroglyphs and/or sign commentary on individual symbols
RU The vertical line in Linear B is a "holder" for two arms reaching out. A sign like this was easier to draw than the hand as on the Phaistos Disk and the Axe of Arkalochori. That the Cypriot syllabary likely shows two arms is seen from the Cypriot sign SU as man/arm (extension). See Cypriot SU: ��	Cypriot syllabary: �� RU	Linear B �� (26) RU "(arms) reach out" ὀρέγω ὤρεγον ὀρωρέ- χαται	Phaistos Disk �� RU "hand" “fist” Archaic Indo European once had one word only for both arm and hand e.g. Latvian roka	The Axe of Arkalochori �� RU The standard sign is reproduced from an apparently faulty copy of the Axe. Redrawn from an original photo, it is correctly "hand":	No Elamite sign yet. Thumb of "The hand" by Cheryl B. at Artamaze Katherine Hilde shows hand variations in drawing.	Sumerian RU (Jaritz #111) Halloran: give by hand Hieroglyphs   RDJ “give, hand over, reach”