(continued from PI 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 PU originally published at 15 - The Syllable PU : 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.
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 PU plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)
PU (phy) φάσηλος, though Greek. The Phaistos Disk symbol is possibly "guardian, talisman, amulett, pendant" (hole for a leather string?) | Cypriot syllabary � � PE Is this sign a tendril of the bean plant ? | Linear B � �(50) PU Bean tendrils identified at | Phaistos Disk � � PU phylax "guardian" amulett, pendant” | No similar sign on Axe Broad Bean cultivation image found at the In Iran, mostly cultivated | Elamite Beans PU Luvian PU, PÁ beans as in Linear B | Sumerian PA “bud, sprout” Persian baghâla "bean" |
PU 2 (phu, phul, pyl) Pu(l)-ke-qi-ri = ἀγείρω) “delegate sent to the Amphictyonic Council at Pylae”. da-mo-ko-lo = possibly “Damocles”, a term meaning “village leader”. The text in the 5th column right might record a king selecting the legendary Damocles as a delegate. | No comparable Cypriot syllabary sign known. Damocles: Modern chronology may err in dating the legendary Damocles much later. | Linear B � �(29) PU2, PUL “foliage” PU, PHU or PUL. | Phaistos Disk no similar sign _______ This sign could be a new creation for Linear B without any comparable in other scripts. | No similar sign on Axe Linear B Pylos Tablet Ta 711 is currently approx. read as o-wi-de pu2-ke-qi-ri o-te wa-na-ka te-ke au-ke-wa da-mo-ko-ro i.e. ca. [Phu2keqiri] [was appointed [aukewa] da-mo-ko-ro by the king ___________ | No Elamite sign yet Luvian at PU 1 for beans has a left side curl and flat stalks as if they were abstracted in style of Linear B | Sumerian with Jaritz #101 as BULUG5 “grain, barley” |
