41 - The Syllable TU : 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 41st posting in this series (which started here), and presents the Syllable TU 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 TU in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)

TU τύφω “burn slowly, consume in smoke” The Linear B sign may show a plant (pod) used to make candlewicks. A wick was called θρυαλλίς in Ancient Greece according to Woodhouse. Wicks were made from plants such as the plantain, Plantago crassifolia, which grows on Crete, or from varieties of Verbascum thapsus (“Aaron's rod", mullein or common mullein). λυχνῖτις is another term for candlewick in Ancient Greece.

Cypriot syllabary: For TU see DU, where the Cypriot sign better fits. One should note that the Cypriot Syllabary allegedly did not distinguish T, D and TH syllables, but I reserve judgment on that for now.

Linear B (69) TU τύφω “burn slowly, consume in smoke” Candlewicks were made of the plant verbascum θρυαλλίς which grows on Crete.

Phaistos Disk no similar sign Sumerian had no “O”, but maybe a dipthonged UO vowel? The original system thus had only four vowels per consonant, also on the Phaistos Disk, which shows its great antiquity – preceding the more modern Linear B.

No comparable Axe sign __________ Thumb of verbascum clipped from Forest & Kim Starr Verbascum thapsus L. see Hippolyte Coste

No Elamite sign known yet Thumb of plantain ________ For Sumerian & Egyptian cf. Indo- European e.g Latvian DEG “to burn” DEGLIS “wick”

Sumerian DE3 “fire, flame” but see also TAKA Halloran: “to start a fire” Egyptian tKA “candle” hieroglpyhs .net