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January-March 2010 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume II., Issue 1.
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MELLÁR, Mihály
The Reading of the Cretan Hieroglyph Texts
The Cretan Hieroglyph writing is a transition between logographic and consonantal phonographic
writing methods. This is an organic writing, in which beside the phonetic signs, i.e. letters, the pictorial
representation, the overall picture counts as well. Beside its phonetic value, the sign
(logogram/hieroglyph) can have local or positional value as well, to be more precise: the sign can get a
phonetic appendix coming from its relative position. Expl. B-B > B-k (-k, plural) > B-_K; B-C-B > B-k-ben C (inbetween
[-ben] B-k [pl.] is C) > B-_KB_N-C.
Every text is a ‘charade’, the reading and interpretation of which demands an active involvement,
making their understanding a real achievement. To unbind, smelt, solve (in Hungarian these words have
the same root: kioldás, olvasztás, olvasás) the message, to find the clue to the picture and word puzzle is a
real adventure, but over the provoking anticipation of the secret and over the pleasant excitation of the
exposure, the solution itself is the biggest gratification: the contamination free, crystal-clear Magyar
language!
No other people on the world can see the state of their mother tongue as clearly from four thousand
years afar as the Magyars. Four thousand years! – an outsized perspective in the realm of people and
languages.
The transliteration is simple matter, the rebus principle is the only less known method often occurring in
the Minoan texts. In essence, the consonantal frame of the name of the manifested object or bearing is
filled with vowels to form a new word. For example, the sign for ten (TíZ) can stand for the words fire
(TűZ) and do (TeSZ), or even for parts of a word: = ‘10’ ‘10’ = T_S/Z+T_S/Z = TüZeTeS (precise,
detailed, thorough). The scribes usually do not differentiate between the letters S (Eng. sh), SZ (Eng. s), Z
and ZS (the Eng. s in usual), even though the signs are available. The correctness of the reading is
ascertained by the legitimate and intelligent Magyar texts.
Let us look into a hieroglyphic text in more details. On the #138 ZA Imp Doc: CMS II 7.215 on HMs 35/1-
3 (2SSN document sealing) document both CHIC (Corpus Hiéroglyphicarum Inscriptionum Cretae,
edited by J.-P. Olivier and L. Godart) and John Younger has noted two hieroglyphs:
impression transnumeration transliteration
X {shell, arcs} X 044-005 KO-Rv
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