Kvashilava, Gia, 2010. On Reading Pictorial Signs of the Phaistos Disk and Related Scripts (2). Rosette (in Georgian and English)

Sumerian script signs: , (Mercer 1918, 9; Falkenstein
1936, 44, 45a, 47, 193); ;
Signs of cuneiform script 1 : , (Falkenstein 1936, 192)
used during 3200-3100 BC in the Late Uruk IV period;
, used during 3100-3000 BC in the Jemdet Nasr period
(or the Late Uruk III period) on the following clay tablets:
Ashm-1926-714, CDLI No P005249; Ashm-1926-709, CDLI
No P005216;
used during 2600-2500 BC on the following clay tablets
of the Early Dynastic IIIa period: Ashm-1928-017, CDLI No
P005311; Ashm-1928-428, CDLI No P222324; Ashm-1930-
156, CDLI No P220624, and – on the following clay tablets:
Ashm-1924-0455, CDLI No P222314; MRAH-0.0089, CDLI
No P010548;
used during 2500-2350 BC in the Early Dynastic IIIb
period on the following clay tablets: Erm-14376, CDLI No
P222695; MRAH-0.0023, CDLI No P222342; MRAH-0.0023,
CDLI No P222946, and – on the following clay tablets: Ashm-
1924-0462, CDLI No P222315; Erm-14065, CDLI No P222280;
Erm-14314, CDLI No P222479; Erm-14012, CDLI No P221719;
1 . Cuneiform signs were called mismari by the people living in Mesopotamia
(
) (Doblhofer, Friedrich 2002, 95). I am thankful to
N. Kvashilava for drawing my attention to this fact.
Comp. mismari: Arabic [mismari] > Old Georgian
[lusmari] (Orbeliani 1991, I, 424); Mingrelian / [lismari/
ləsmari] – nail (Kajaia 2008, II, 92, 93, 195); comp. also: German Keilschrift;
English cuneiform (i.e. wedge-shaped) writing; cuneiform < Latin
cŭneus – nail, wedge (Hunting 1915, 28; Tatishvili 2009, 17 2 ).
Cuneiform sign in Sumerian [saĝ.KAK], [saĝtak], , ,
[santak (2,3,4) ] is triangle, wedge (PSD; Halloran 2006, 54), and in Akkadian
sa·an·tak·ku ( [SAG.DÙ]) – triangle (CAD 1984, 6, 149, 150; also
see: Tatishvili 2009, 17 3 ; Kogan, Loesov 2009, 174); the word was used as a
geometric term in old Babylon.
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