(continued from TE 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 TI originally published at 39 - The Syllable TI : 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 TI plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)
TI This sign represents a (thyrsus viz. thyrsos) "a wand wreathed in ivy and vine-leaves with a pine-cone at the top". Linear B � � � � thus for example reads PA-THYR, "father" and not merely PA-TE (without the R) as currently thought. | Cypriot syllabary � � TI A Thyrsos from | Linear B � �(04) TE THY THYR The thyrsus sign represents a staff and the windings around the staff. | Phaistos Disk � � TI is "a wand wreathed in ivy and vine- leaves with a pine-cone at the top, carried by the devotees of Dionysus". | No comparable Axe sign ______________ THYRSUS Image thumb, squidoo.com: | Elamite TE Luvian TI, TA5 thyrsus | Sumerian DR in concatenations „a serpent“ ŋIDRU "scepter" Egyptian WDJ cord on stick |
