18A - The Syllable RI : 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 posting 18A in this series (which started here), and presents a small correction of the syllabic grid for the Syllable RI which was originally presented in posting 18 of this series. Here we have added a Syllable RI to the Old Elamite Script syllabary where we had no sign before at all for this syllable for Elamite. This sign is very similar to the Cypriot Syllabary sign and its syllabic value was obtained by the fortuitous identification of an archaic word on one of the Old Elamite sources as παστήριαta "feast on sacrificial meats" in connection with a funerary text for King Labynetus.

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 RI in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)

RI rhy Most of the signs are a ῥυτόν “rhyton”,a container for fluids, while the Phaistos Disk has a sign I mistook 30 years ago for a plant leaf but which is actually a plant root, a rhizome, ῥίζωμα viz. the simpler Greek ῥιζόω “to plant, strike root”.

Cypriot syllabary: �� RO (Must RI and RO values, not the signs as placed, be exchanged in the Cypriotic?)

Linear B ��(53) RI A rhyton on a table-like support.

Phaistos Disk �� RI Mistaken as a plant leaf but actually a plant root, ῥίζωμα rhizome.

No similar sign on Axe __________ For Linear B, the current linguistic view is that: "The r-series includes ... the /r/ and /l/ phonemes: ti-ri-po for tripos (τρίπος) & tu-ri-so for Tuliso (Τυλισός)." That view is clearly incorrect. Both /R/ and /L/ phonemes existed in Linear B.

Elamite RI rhyton, Ag. Triada Heraklion Museum

Sumerian IRIG (Jaritz #457) “conical oil container” IRI or IRIG voluminous