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

Erm-14017, CDLI No P221724; Erm-14051, CDLI No P221820;
Erm-14056, CDLI No P221825; Erm-14061, CDLI No P221830;
, , used in 2350-2100 BC on the following clay
tablets of the Old Akkadian period: Ashm-1930-403, CDLI No
P215367; MRAH-0.0239, CDLI No P222277; MRAH-0.0710,
CDLI No P222950; MRAH-0.0094, CDLI No P216420;
MRAH-0.0515, CDLI No P200407;
, used in 2100-2000 BC on the following clay tablets of
the Ur III period: Ashm-1912-1141, CDLI No P127265; MRAH-
0.0119, CDLI No P200932; MRAH-0.0120, CDLI No P200933;
used on the following clay tablets in 2000-1600 BC in
the Old Babylonian period: Ashm-1931-0137b, CDLI No
P332926; Ashm-1932-0392, CDLI No P247796; Ashm-1924-
0887, CDLI No P347494; Ashm-1932-0176+N6939, CDLI No
P231029;
, , used in 1000-540 in the Neo-Assyrian period
on the following clay tablets: Ashm-1924-1914, CDLI No
P347743; Ashm-1924-1499+1717, CDLI No P347749; Ashm-
1924-1206+1410+1470, CDLI No P347753; Ashm-1924-1831,
CDLI No P347836; Ashm-1924-1230+Ashm-1927-2118, CDLI
No P247827, etc.
Such is the development of the cuneiform sign (comp.:
Mercer 1918, 36; Deimel 1922, 1, 8; Falkenstein 1936, 192;
Chadwick 1990, 21, Fig. 5).
Eight-petalled rosette is connected to Sumerian pictogram
and cuneiform sign 1202E (comp. Sharashenidze 2008,
28, 9-10) that denote star, sky and An/Anu – a sky-god, the god
of heaven (Melikishvili 2004, 8). E.g., Sumerian [mul] is
star, 1 [an] – sky, [diĝir/dingir = abbreviated d] – god
1 . Sumerian [mul] (ĝi 6 /mi night + ul) is 1. star; 2. constellation; 3.
planet; 4. meteor (Halloran 2006, 32); 5. to shine, radiate (light, branches)
(PSD); Sumerian ul – 1. star; 2. flower, bud; 3. ornament; 4. pleasure
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