Sunday, March 06, 2011

Syllabic Grid of Ancient Scripts: TE Luvian Update to the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance MinAegCon by Andis Kaulins

Syllabic Grid of Ancient Scripts: TE Luvian Update to the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance MinAegCon by Andis Kaulins

(continued from TA 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 TE originally published at 38 - The Syllable TE : 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 TE plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)

TE
Surely τέκτων viz.
τέχνη "carpenter,
mason, joiner,
craftsman, master of an
art".

The Cypriot Syllabary
also uses the  square
edge but it is unclear
why the ground is
included in the Cypriot
sign unless it is intended
to apply to the building
of buildings.
Cypriot syllabary

TE

square &
compass
Linear B


(37)
TI
compass
(should TI and
TE values be
reversed
here?)
Phaistos Disk


TE

square edge

See also
No comparable Axe sign
______________
τέκτων ... (tektōn)
1. ...carpenter, builder
2. Any craftsman ...
3. A master of any art...
4. author, creator,
planner

Luvian
Z or : TA3
"hands in action", root of later Latin dexter
("right" was not root)
Elamite

TE

Luvian
C
squared
Sumerian
DU3
“buiild, fix, make, do”

Egyptian
DJRT
Cf. Latvian
darīt to do“
ķert (tjert)
to grab“